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MHF 4404 Test 1
MHF 4404 Test 1
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Pythagoras is said to have established the dictum:
"All is Word"
"All is Number"
"All is Sign"
2
In the middle of the Hyksos period, a scribe wrote a treatise on Egyptian mathematics. The name of the scriber was:
Pythagorus
A'hmosè
3
Before the modern era, the form of punishment in Greece was:
prison
Fines
Death
4
The most advanced problems dealt with by the Babylonians concerned:
Banking
Money
Interest
5
The number five thousand two hundred forty two can be written in pseudo-Greek as:
------- 'ETMB
'ETMB
6
The Pythagorean triple with smallest number 5 is:
7, 12, 13
5, 12, 13
5, 6, 7
7
Babylonian from Tablet 322 . With the exception of occasional errors, what do we find?
c^2 - b^2 = a^2
-c^2 - b^2 = a^2
c^2 + b^2 = a^2
8
The most important cities of Greece were:
Athens and Sparta
Paris and Athens
Beijing and Athens
Sparta and Paris
9
Egyptians developed a system of writing called:
Pseudo-Hieratic
Heiroglyphics
IDK
10
What is perhaps the greatest achievement of the Egyptian geometers is a method of correctly finding:
the volume of the frustrum of a square pyramid
The Lateral Height
11
a^2 + b^2 = c^2 is known as a Pythagorean triple. One of the methods for finding Pythagorean triplets is attributed to:
Neither
Plato
Pythagorus
Both
12
The method of using one mark to indicate one unit is known as:
Amazement
Scribble
Mark Up
Tally System
13
The most difficult computations in the ancient world occurred in:
Mathematical Astronomy
Mathematical Induction
Math Stuff
14
Egyptians wrote primarily on:
Leather
Papyrus
Stone
Papyrus, Leather, Cloth, and Stone
15
The Egyptian value for π was approximately:
3.15
3.14
3.17
3.16
16
Babylonians developed a system of writing called:
Cuneiform
Heiroglyphics
17
The oldest civilizations using a form of math were:
Nobody
Greeks/Mesopotamians
Athens/Greeks
Egyptians/Mesopotamians
18
In 1858, a portion of the Egyptian treatise was found and it is referred to as:
A Leaf
Rhind Papyrus
Regular Papyrus
19
Using the Babylonian notation, the number 148 is equivalent to:
2, 28
28, 2
20
The Greeks referred to the skill of computation as:
amusing
amazement
logistic
logical
21
Around 600 B.C. the number system used by the Greek was referred to as:
Stable
Roof
Barn
Attic
22
The Egyptian number 20, 3 in our number system (decimal) corresponds to the number:
23
32
60
23
Egyptians solved linear problems using the method of false position known as:
HAHA Method
Aha Method
A'hmosè Method
24
When dealing with fractions, the Greeks used:
sexagesimal and unit fractions
common and sexagesimal fractions
common, sexagesimal, and unit fractions
common and unit fractions
25
Given the first two terms 24, 12 of the geometric proportion, the third term is:
6
4
7
5
26
The most advanced problems dealt with the Babylonians, we would solve today using:
Trigonometry
e's and ln's
Logarithms
27
The geometry of the Egyptians was filled with problems relating to:
Canals
Prisms
China
Pyramids
28
Many of the Babylonians applied mathematics problems dealt with:
Digging of Canals
Pyramids
Building the Great Wall of China
29
If there is a quantity that measures two quantities, the quantities were called:
Non-Commensurable
Commensurable
30
The Pythagorean triple with smallest number 8 is:
9, 15, 17
8, 15, 17
8, 15, 16
8, 17, 19
31
Around 600 B.C. a leader codified the laws in a city of Greece. The name of this
Hitler
Jerry Rice
Solon
Trump
32
The first mathematical operations described on the Egyptian papyrus were:
Multiplication and Division
Addition and Subtraction
33
The oldest evidence of mathematical activity dated from around 30,000 B.C. It was found on a:
Stone
Bear's Bone
Rock
Wolf's Bone
34
The Babylonian number system was:
Confusesimal
Agesimal
Sexagesimal
35
The word dyad in Greek, refers to:
4
5
3
2