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Easy Math Trivia Questions
The easy questions from our math set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The easy band is arithmetic and basic shape vocabulary: times tables, percentages, square roots, the angles in a triangle, the name for an eight-sided polygon. School maths covers all of it, and younger players often beat the adults because it is fresher.
14 easy math trivia questions with answers
What is 7 multiplied by 8?
Answer: 56 It is one of the two products people most often stumble over in the times tables.Why?
The angles inside any triangle add up to how many degrees?
Answer: 180 Tear off the three corners and they line up flat against a straight edge.
How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer: Six Regular hexagons tile a flat surface with no gaps, which is why honeycomb uses them.Why?
What is 10 per cent of 250?
Answer: 25 Finding ten per cent only means moving the decimal point one place left.Why?
Pi rounded to two decimal places is what?
Answer: 3.14 It is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, whatever the circle's size.
What is the square root of 144?
Answer: 12 Twelve twelves is 144, so twelve is the root.Why?
A number divisible only by itself and 1 is called what?
Answer: Prime By convention 1 itself is excluded from the primes.
How many degrees are in a right angle?
Answer: 90 Four of them meet at the centre of a square.Why?
What is 3 cubed?
Answer: 27 Three multiplied by itself three times gives 27.Why?
Which fraction is larger, two thirds or three fifths?
Answer: Two thirds Over fifteenths they become ten and nine, so two thirds wins.Why?
What is the name for a polygon with eight sides?
Answer: Octagon The prefix is the same one used in octopus and octave.Why?
What is 15 squared?
Answer: 225 Any number ending in five squares to something ending in 25.Why?
What is the answer to a division problem called?
Answer: Quotient Sum, product and difference belong to addition, multiplication and subtraction.Why?
What do the first ten positive whole numbers add up to?
Answer: 55 Pairing 1 with 10, 2 with 9 and so on gives five pairs of eleven.Why?
Answer key
- 56
- 180
- Six
- 25
- 3.14
- 12
- Prime
- 90
- 27
- Two thirds
- Octagon
- 225
- Quotient
- 55
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