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Medium Math Trivia Questions
The medium questions from our math set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The medium band brings in constants, notation and sequences: e, sigma, zero factorial, powers of two, Fibonacci and the circumference formula. It rewards anyone who kept going with maths past the compulsory years.
14 medium math trivia questions with answers
The angles inside any quadrilateral add up to how many degrees?
Answer: 360 A quadrilateral splits into two triangles, so it is twice 180.
A triangle with all three sides equal is called what?
Answer: Equilateral Its three angles must each be 60 degrees.
Which ancient Greek is credited with the theorem linking the squares on the sides of a right triangle?
Answer: Pythagoras The relationship was known to earlier cultures, but his school carried the name.
What is the value of zero factorial?
Answer: 1 There is exactly one way to arrange nothing, so the empty product is one.Why?
Which Greek letter is used to mean 'sum of' in mathematics?
Answer: Sigma Delta signals a change, and sigma signals a total.Why?
The constant e is approximately what?
Answer: 2.718 It turns up wherever growth compounds continuously.
Which is the only even prime number?
Answer: Two Every other even number has two as a factor, so it cannot be prime.Why?
How many sides does a dodecagon have?
Answer: Twelve The same prefix appears in dodecahedron.Why?
In a set of numbers, the mode is which value?
Answer: The most frequent value The middle value is the median and the average is the mean.
What is 2 to the power of 10?
Answer: 1024 It is why a kilobyte was originally 1024 bytes rather than 1000.Why?
In the Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, what comes next?
Answer: 21 Each term is the sum of the two before it, so 8 plus 13.
In a right triangle, which side is the hypotenuse?
Answer: The longest side, opposite the right angle It is always opposite the largest angle, which in a right triangle is the right angle.
Which formula gives the circumference of a circle?
Answer: 2 x pi x radius The second option is the area rather than the perimeter.Why?
Which Roman numeral stands for 500?
Answer: D C is 100, L is 50 and M is 1000.Why?
Answer key
- 360
- Equilateral
- Pythagoras
- 1
- Sigma
- 2.718
- Two
- Twelve
- The most frequent value
- 1024
- 21
- The longest side, opposite the right angle
- 2 x pi x radius
- D
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