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2. In a recent trend of popular vines, a young boy is affectionately told “You stupid” after answering
what to the question: “What’s 9 + 10”?
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3. A pizza has 8 slices. Alibaba and his thief friends are hungry and would like to eat 5 slices each. With
the exception of Fat Sinbad, who eats a whole pizza by himself. How many pizzas must Alibaba order to
feed his friends?
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Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a
transcendental number in 1882?
A: Pi.
Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
A: Obtuse.
Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in
530 B.C.?
A: Pythagoras.
Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?
A: Zero.
Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
A: The hexagon.
Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.
Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in
1940?
A: Googol.
Q: What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when the pocket calculator made
the scene in the 1970s?
A: The Slide rule's.