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Only 3% Of Adults Can Actually Solve All Of These Math Problems – Check If You Are One Of Them
“When will I ever use this?” – we each said this at least once back in high school. And it’s highly probable that you said this in math class. Well, to answer your question from decades ago – today! Today’s trivia features 32 questions – 3 for each grade of primary and middle school and 2 for each high school year. It will start easy but by the end, you might question your choice of not doing your homework back in high school. Just like in school, if you don’t know, you can always guess! With 4 possible answers to each of the questions, your chances of guessing correctly are…? Wait, let’s keep the problems to the actual trivia.
Grab your calculator (yes, you can use it), a piece of paper, and a pencil, and let’s solve some math problems!
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Robert T 1 month ago
I made a couple of silly mistakes trying to do it quickly. The 9 to the power of 150/300 was not clear from the formatting - it looked like an mixed fraction - if I'd been able to read it correctly, I would have got it right. I'm glad they stopped short of differential equations, as I still have nightmares about those!
Rahul Pawa 1 month ago
I also made a mistake on #27 by not reading all the choices. I selected 3 before I noticed +-3 was an option.
Load More Replies... Rahul Pawa 1 month ago
#27 and #30 should have the same answer but they don't. I was rushing and got #27 wrong because I selected 3 instead of +-3. But then on #30 they accepted 3 as correct even though it should also be +-3 (which wasn't an option).
Bob Brooce 1 month ago
I see absolutely no reason to include +/-3 as an answer to #30 because convention says the square root is the positive square root, and the negative square root is the "negative square root". As for #27, x=3 is very definitely a correct solution.
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Šimon Špaček 1 month ago
Most of those were quite easy. Except remembering what is sin of 30°, the rest is simple calculation.
Robert T 1 month ago
sin 30 and cos 60 are both 0.5. sin 60 and cos 30 are root 3 over 2. I once did an entire paper which had questions with those in without a calculator as I had forgotten mine and was too scared to ask to borrow one (my maths teacher was quite strict).
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Guess Undheit 1 month ago
The one about "+/- 3" is bushllit. It is standard practice to ALWAYS assume positive square roots, not "positive or negative".
Gabriela Cink 3 weeks ago
You mean question 27 with exponent? At least it was only question with +/-3 answer. Function is parabolic, so it has 2 roots... https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=x%5E2-9 Positive number is true in natural numbers thou....
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Ace 1 month ago (edited)
The only one I struggled with was the derivation one, which I half-guessed, but correctly. Calculus is the only thing in this quiz that I haven't used regularly or at least on and off over the last 40-plus years.. Oh, the common multiples and factors as well, but that's just semantics+arithmetic, the only real issue there is understanding what the question means. The one with the graph just made me laugh, as I didn't used the formula, just looked at the values and used pythagoras.
Bob Brooce 1 month ago
#9 is obviously wrong unless the original parents died and the 2nd batch are all offspring of the first batch.
Terry Waters 3 weeks ago
I didn't think of that, however a cat dad is unlikely to stick around until birth so it should be +1 cat, the mom. Assuming they're from the same mom.
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Bexxperience 1 month ago
#23 - according to the diagram and the multiple choice answers, the shorter leg of the right-angled triangle is supposed to be longer than 4ft, the length of the longer leg. What?
Minh Chau Do 1 month ago
As someone who has just finished middle school, I swear I can explain failing the last third-
Dirk Daring 1 month ago
The answer to question 9 should be 29, unless the mother vanished after those baby bunnies were born.
Gabriela Cink 3 weeks ago
Yeah i didn't like the formulation of the question either.
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Robert T 1 month ago
I made a couple of silly mistakes trying to do it quickly. The 9 to the power of 150/300 was not clear from the formatting - it looked like an mixed fraction - if I'd been able to read it correctly, I would have got it right. I'm glad they stopped short of differential equations, as I still have nightmares about those!
Rahul Pawa 1 month ago
I also made a mistake on #27 by not reading all the choices. I selected 3 before I noticed +-3 was an option.
Load More Replies... Rahul Pawa 1 month ago
#27 and #30 should have the same answer but they don't. I was rushing and got #27 wrong because I selected 3 instead of +-3. But then on #30 they accepted 3 as correct even though it should also be +-3 (which wasn't an option).
Bob Brooce 1 month ago
I see absolutely no reason to include +/-3 as an answer to #30 because convention says the square root is the positive square root, and the negative square root is the "negative square root". As for #27, x=3 is very definitely a correct solution.
Load More Replies... Šimon Špaček 1 month ago
Most of those were quite easy. Except remembering what is sin of 30°, the rest is simple calculation.
Robert T 1 month ago
sin 30 and cos 60 are both 0.5. sin 60 and cos 30 are root 3 over 2. I once did an entire paper which had questions with those in without a calculator as I had forgotten mine and was too scared to ask to borrow one (my maths teacher was quite strict).
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 month ago
The one about "+/- 3" is bushllit. It is standard practice to ALWAYS assume positive square roots, not "positive or negative".
Gabriela Cink 3 weeks ago
You mean question 27 with exponent? At least it was only question with +/-3 answer. Function is parabolic, so it has 2 roots... https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=x%5E2-9 Positive number is true in natural numbers thou....
Load More Replies... Ace 1 month ago (edited)
The only one I struggled with was the derivation one, which I half-guessed, but correctly. Calculus is the only thing in this quiz that I haven't used regularly or at least on and off over the last 40-plus years.. Oh, the common multiples and factors as well, but that's just semantics+arithmetic, the only real issue there is understanding what the question means. The one with the graph just made me laugh, as I didn't used the formula, just looked at the values and used pythagoras.
Bob Brooce 1 month ago
#9 is obviously wrong unless the original parents died and the 2nd batch are all offspring of the first batch.
Terry Waters 3 weeks ago
I didn't think of that, however a cat dad is unlikely to stick around until birth so it should be +1 cat, the mom. Assuming they're from the same mom.
Load More Replies... Bexxperience 1 month ago
#23 - according to the diagram and the multiple choice answers, the shorter leg of the right-angled triangle is supposed to be longer than 4ft, the length of the longer leg. What?
Minh Chau Do 1 month ago
As someone who has just finished middle school, I swear I can explain failing the last third-
Dirk Daring 1 month ago
The answer to question 9 should be 29, unless the mother vanished after those baby bunnies were born.
Gabriela Cink 3 weeks ago
Yeah i didn't like the formulation of the question either.
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