Exploring Mathematics Final Review Flashcards
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a quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel and equal in length
rectangle
A whispering gallery has a shape like
ellipse
Base 10 uses the digits 0 through
9
invented logarithms
John Napier
2, 4, 6, 8, 10
even numbers
irrational numbers
The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.
233
In 1861, James Clerk Maxwell made a color photograph using
the three colors of red, green, and blue
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
whole numbers
year
earth revolves around the sun once
A pint is a ___ the world around.
pound
What is the main reason to have leap days?
So the calendar will match the seasons or so the calendar year will be the same length as the solar year.
the first part of the name means over or beyond
hyperbola
a polygon with five sides
pentagon
A scruple was a standard of weight for measuring
drugs
built a calculator to help his father, a tax collector
Blaise Pascal
wrote the first computer program
August Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace
The study of the properties of whole numbers is called
number theory
The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.
233
The sum of the _______________ of the legs of a right triangle are equal to the _______________ of the hypotenuse.
squares, square
the problem that a computer helped solve was the
the four-color map problem
day
earth rotates on its axis once
NASA’s Climate Orbiter to Mars failed because …
engineers used two different measures of force
The Egyptian knotted rope was used to measure out
a triangle with a right angle
all points are the same distance from the center
circle
a rectangle with four equal sides
square
Moore’s law states that computers double in power every 18
months
The Egyptian knotted rope was used to measure out
a triangle with a right angle
a mirror of this shape will focus sunlight
parabola
The sum of the _______________ of the legs of a right triangle are equal to the _______________ of the hypotenuse.
squares, square
1/1, ½, ¾, ⅔
rational numbers
spent six years calculating the orbit of Mars
Johannes Kepler
-3. -2. -1, 0, +1, +2, +3
integers
Doubling the length, width, and height of a box gives it a volume
eight times as great
Doubling the length, width, and height of a box gives it a volume
eight times as great
season
due to the tilt of the earth’s axis, equal to three months
is not a polygon
circle
Until 1960, the meter was considered
the distance between two scratch marks
The square root of two, is an example of
an irrational number
Daniel Fahrenheit set the boiling temperature of water on his thermometer at
212 degrees
month
moon revolves around the earth once
1, 3, 5, 7, 9
odd numbers
a polygon with three sides and one right angle
right triangle
The length of a mile in feet is
5,280
built the first general purpose calculating machine
Howard H. Aiken
A computer with components put farther apart will run more slowly because
electric signals can go no faster than the speed of light
A common fraction can be changed into a decimal by dividing the numerator by the
denominator
the orbit of Haley’s comet is of this shape
ellipse
built a calculator called the Step Reckoner
Gottfried Leibnitz
A whispering gallery has a shape like
ellipse
In the 1600s, the French mathematician Rene Descartes discovered a way to combine algebra with
Geometry
built the difference engine
Charles Babbage
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
counting numbers
invented tabulating machines used in the 1890 census
Herman Hollerith
The expression log103 = 0.477 is read as “The logarithm of the number __________ in base __________ is __________.”
three, ten, 0.477
week
seven days
