Exploring Mathematics Chapters 1-11 Review

Question 1

A scruple was a standard of weight for measuring

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drugs

Question 2

The study of the properties of whole numbers is called

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number theory

Question 3

a polygon with three sides and one right angle

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right triangle

Question 4

The Egyptian knotted rope was used to measure out

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a triangle with a right angle

Question 5

The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.

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233

Question 6

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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counting numbers

Question 7

the orbit of Haley’s comet is of this shape

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ellipse

Question 8

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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whole numbers

Question 9

a mirror of this shape will focus sunlight

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parabola

Question 10

A whispering gallery has a shape like

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ellipse

Question 11

a rectangle with four equal sides

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square

Question 12

The length of a mile in feet is

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5,280

Question 13

What is the main reason to have leap days?

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So the calendar will match the seasons or so the calendar year will be the same length as the solar year.

Question 14

a quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel and equal in length

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rectangle

Question 15

1, 3, 5, 7, 9

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odd numbers

Question 16

week

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seven days

Question 17

day

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earth rotates on its axis once

Question 18

The sum of the _______________ of the legs of a right triangle are equal to the _______________ of the hypotenuse.

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squares, square

Question 19

The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.

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233

Question 20

Until 1960, the meter was considered

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the distance between two scratch marks

Question 21

The Egyptian knotted rope was used to measure out

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a triangle with a right angle

Question 22

A pint is a ___ the world around.

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pound

Question 23

year

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earth revolves around the sun once

Question 24

all points are the same distance from the center

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circle

Question 25

month

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moon revolves around the earth once

Question 26

A whispering gallery has a shape like

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ellipse

Question 27

Doubling the length, width, and height of a box gives it a volume

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eight times as great

Question 28

NASA’s Climate Orbiter to Mars failed because …

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engineers used two different measures of force

Question 29

the problem that a computer helped solve was the

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the four-color map problem

Question 30

A common fraction can be changed into a decimal by dividing the numerator by the

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denominator

Question 31

the first part of the name means over or beyond

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hyperbola

Question 32

season

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due to the tilt of the earth’s axis, equal to three months

Question 33

Doubling the length, width, and height of a box gives it a volume

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eight times as great

Question 34

Daniel Fahrenheit set the boiling temperature of water on his thermometer at

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212 degrees

Question 35

The sum of the _______________ of the legs of a right triangle are equal to the _______________ of the hypotenuse.

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squares, square

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is not a polygon

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circle

Question 37

1/1, ½, ¾, ⅔

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rational numbers

Question 38

-3. -2. -1, 0, +1, +2, +3

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integers

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a polygon with five sides

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pentagon

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2, 4, 6, 8, 10

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even numbers

Question 41

In the 1600s, the French mathematician Rene Descartes discovered a way to combine algebra with

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Geometry

Question 42

The square root of two, is an example of

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an irrational number

Question 43

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irrational numbers