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1. In 'Infinity' what type of math did Richard Feynman (Matthew Broderick) use to compute the cube root of 1729.03?
2. In 'Stand and Deliver', which East Los Angeles High School did teacher Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos) prepare his students to take the AP Calculus exam?
3. In 'Rushmore', Max Fisher (Jason Schwartzman) solves what his teacher calls 'just about the hardest ________ problem in the world.' What type of math problem was it?
4. In 'Little Big League', Billy Haywood (Luke Edwards) needed help to solve a rate problem for his algebra homework. The question was, 'Bill can paint a house in five hours and Mary can paint a house in three hours. How many hours did it take both to paint the house?' What was the answer?
5. In 'Bedazzled' starring Brendan Fraser (Elliot Richards) and Elizabeth Hurley (The Devil), there was a scene where The Devil was the teacher for a group of boys. When she put an assignment on the blackboard, there was a very unique math problem. The question was Xn + Yn = Zn for n greater than 2. Is this a math problem that can produce a proof?
6. In the movie 'The Wizard of Oz', Dorothy, The Lion, The Tin Man and The Scarecrow wanted a gift from the great Wizard of Oz. The Scarecrow wanted a brain. When he finally got one, he pronounced, 'The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.' What was The Scarecrow referring to?
7. Which movie is about a mathematician who made significant contributions to the game theory in the 1950s, which became the basis for much of modern economics?
8. Which movie was based on a young man who had a troubled life but had a hidden yet incredible talent for mathematics?
9. In which independent film does Maximillian Cohen (Sean Gullette) become an obsessed mathematician searching for patterns within the infinite decimal places of pi?
10. In 'Cast Away', Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is marooned on an uninhabited Pacific island. There was a scene where Noland is computing the search area where rescuers must search. He made a circle where the center was the point of last radio contact. He assumed the cargo jet was traveling at 400 mph, we saw him make the calculation of 160,000 mi = (400) square x 3.14. What was the calculation?
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