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Math is for Squares

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Math is for Squares game quiz
"OK, so someone in the Author's Challenge wanted a quiz about squares. Here's a quiz about squares. Warning: your calculator might not help you very much!"

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1. Which of the following represents the square of any number n?
    n*2
    All of these
    2^n
    n*n


2. What is i^2 (i squared)?
    -1
    0
    i
    Undetermined


3. Solve n^2 = n. Note: There are two answers.
    Answer: (Enter two numbers, separated by a space)


4. Which of the following can be made into a square with changes to its angles only?
    Parallelogram
    All of these
    Rectangle
    Rhombus


5. Everybody knows that each angle of a square is 90 degrees, right? Well, I just drew a square whose angles are each 120 degrees. Where did I draw it?
    In a bar, after having too much to drink
    On a sphere
    In Euclidian space
    Around a plane circle


6. A number raised to the second power is a square, and a number raised to the third power is a cube. What term can be used for a square of squares, or a number raised to the fourth power?
    Quartic
    Prismatic
    Quadratic
    There is no such term


7. If a solid object undergoes a proportional increase in size, which measure increases by the square of the multiplier?
    Perimeter
    Surface area
    Volume
    All of these


8. Using only a compass and a straightedge, you try, in a finite number of steps, to make a square with the same area as a given circle. Don't try too long, because it can't be done! That this is a futile exercise was proven in 1882 with the Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem. What's the name of this famous problem?
    Circling the square
    Straighttedging the compass
    Compassing the straightedge
    Squaring the circle


9. In rectangular coordinates, what is the fourth vertex of a square whose other vertices are (1,1) (3,-1) (1,-3)?
    (-3,1)
    (-1,-3)
    (-3,-3)
    (-1,-1)


10. Finally, you have 1475.366 feet of fencing and want to use it to enclose a quadrilateral fish farm for vermillion Clupea pallasii. The fish farm is to have the maximum possible area. What shape will the farm be?
    Trapezoidal
    Circular
    Square
    Rectangular, with sides of ratio 1:38.41 (square root of 1475.366)


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Compiled May 22 13