PRELIMINARY EXAM

 Which ancient Indian text is considered to be the foundational work of Indian

mathematics? -Sulba Sutras
 Which served as a proof of existence of Greek mathematics?
- Fragments and copies of copies of documents
 A man has a number of chickens, ducks, and geese on his farm. He counted the
legs of the animals and found out that he had a total of 82 legs. If a chicken has 2
legs, a duck has 4 legs, and a goose has 6 legs, how many of each animal does the
man have? - 9 chickens, 6 ducks, and 3 geese

Match the description with the  mathematicians

Euclid - A finite straight line can be produced continuously in a line
Pappus of Alexandria- Geometric transformations
Pappus of Alexandria- Hexagon Theorem
Euclid - A circle may be described with any center and distance
Erastosthenes- Father of geography
Pappus of Alexandria- Wrote on the properties of chords in conic sections
Euclid -All right angles are equal to one another.
Pappus of Alexandria- Centroid theorems
Euclid -If a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the
same side less than two right angles, then the two straight lines, if produced
indefinitely meet on that side on which are the angles less than two right angles

 Counters are small, three dimensional clay that represent certain quantities. -
False
 Which place is not included in the emergence of early Greek mathematics? -
Mainland Greece

Apollonius of Perga- Apollonian gasket

Archimedes- He formulated a method for calculating the volume of objects with
irregular shapes
Archimedes- The buoyant force on an object submerged in a fluid is equal to the
weight of the fluid it displaces.
Hypatia- The First Woman Mathematician
Eratosthenes- Studies of prime numbers
Hypatia- She edited and corrected many works on mathematics, including the famous
"Almagest" of Ptolemy, and wrote commentaries on the works of Diophantus and
Apollonius.
Eratosthenes- Measurement of the Earth's circumference
Archimedes- Discovered the relationship between the surface area and volume of a
sphere and derived an approximation for the value of pi
Diophantus- Discovery of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic
Apollonius of Perga- Wrote a treatise called "Conics, " in which he defined and
studied the properties of conic sections, including ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas.
Diophantus- Father of Algebra
Claudius Ptolemy- He developed a table of chords that could be used to calculate
trigonometric functions, such as sine, cosine, and tangent
Apollonius of Perga- Apollonian circles
Claudius Ptolemy- Almagest
Eratosthenes- Sieve of Eratosthenes
Diophantus- His work Arithmetica

 Cuneiform - This began as pictographs, pictures of things acted as words.

 The historic stage is characterized by the creation of stone tools, and it is dated
some 3.3 million years ago. -False
 A carpenter is making a bookshelf and has a number of wooden planks of
different lengths. The longest plank is 72 inches, and the other planks are all
shorter than this. If the carpenter wants to make shelves that are all the same
length, and each shelf is 18 inches long, how many shelves can the carpenter
make? - 4 shelves
 A school is planning a field trip for 43 students. If they rent buses that can carry
either 15 or 20 students, how many buses do they need to rent? -3 buses
 A factory produces three types of products, and each product has a different
number of units produced. The first type produces 14 units, the second type
produces 21 units, and the third type produces 35 units. If the factory has
produced a total of 154 units, how many of each type were produced? - 3 of the
first type, 3 of the second type, and 2 of the third type.
 Which number system was developed in ancient India and is still in use today? -
Decimal
 A group of friends went to a restaurant and ordered different types of food. The
first friend ordered a burger that costs 8 dollars, the second friend ordered a salad
 that costs 6 dollars, and the third friend ordered a pizza that costs 12 dollars. If
they split the bill evenly, how much does each friend have to pay? - 10 dollars
 Which of the following is not an interpretation of the contents of the Ishango
Bone? -Negative Numbers
 The Ishango bone is the only evidence of Neolithic Age. - False
 Which civilization uses mathematics not for practical use only? -Greece
 Who is known as the "Father of Indian Mathematics? -Aryabhata

Shen Kuo- Mengxi Bitan

Shu Shijie- Methods of Four Unknown
Qin Jiushao- First introduce the zero symbol in Chinese Mathematics
Liu Hui- Detailed commentary on the Nine Chapters
Qin Jiushao- Shushu Jiuzhang

 It is a text listed several simple Pythagorean triples, as well as a statement of the

simplified Pythagorean theorem for the sides of a square and of the rectangle. -
Sulba Satras
 He was the first to introduce the zero symbol in Chinese Mathematics. - Qin
Jiushao
 Which ancient Indian text is considered to be the foundational work of Indian
mathematics? - Sulba Satras
 Mathematics in China emerged independently during what century? - 11th
 Century B.C.
 Who established the legendary library Bayt al-Hikma (" House of Wisdom") in
Baghdad? - Harun Al-Rashid
 A factory produces three types of products, and each product has a different
number of units produced. The first type produces 14 units, the second type
produces 21 units, and the third type produces 35 units. If the factory has
produced a total of 154 units, how many of each type were produced? - 3 of the
first type, 3 of the second type, and 2 of the third type.
 Which of the following is not included in the four unknowns? - Fire
 These squares of numbers where each row, column and diagonal added up to the
same total- were regarded as having great spiritual and religious significance. -
Lo Shu Magic Square
 He is an Indian Mathematician who has brilliant conceptual leap to include zero
as a number. -Brahmagupta
 A man has a number of chickens, ducks, and geese on his farm. He counted the
legs of the animals and found out that he had a total of 82 legs. If a chicken has 2
legs, a duck has 4 legs, and a goose has 6 legs, how many of each animal does the
man have? - 9 chickens, 6 ducks, and 3 geese
 A carpenter is making a bookshelf and has a number of wooden planks of
different lengths. The longest plank is 72 inches, and the other planks are all
shorter than this. If the carpenter wants to make shelves that are all the same
length, and each shelf is 18 inches long, how many shelves can the carpenter
make? - 4 Shelves
 Who is considered as the father of Algebra? - Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi
 He founded the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics in the late 14th
century. -Madhava
 It is a Chinese test on mathematics approximately seven thousand characters in
length. It is written in 190 bamboo sticks. -Suan Shu Shu
 Who is known as the "Father of Indian Mathematics? -Aryabhata
 Which boom was seen as the basis of algebra and solving quadratic equations? -
The compendious book on calculation by completion and balancing
 Who invented the methods of four unknowns? - Zhu Shijie
 A school is planning a field trip for 43 students. If they rent buses that can carry
either 15 or 20 students, how many buses do they need to rent? -3 buses
 He produced a detailed commentary on the "Nine Chapters" in 263 CE. -Llu Hui