Category: Various Answers

SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers, Mar/Apr BTs

REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration on solutions, please feel free to ask! If all of the integers from 1 – 1000, inclusive were written out – and then arranged in alphabetical order – what would be the very…
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers, Jan/Feb BTs

REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration on solutions, please feel free to ask! Simplify: (2 + 0 + 2 + 2)2 – (2 – 0 – 2 – 2)2 + 20 – 22 36 – 4 + 20 –…
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers, Fall ’21

REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration on solutions, please feel free to ask! (This one is actually designed for the brand new subscribers who are Math Buddy volunteers (with young children) in Springfield, but of course anyone may answer!) Find the…
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers, Jul/Aug ’21 BTs

REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration on solutions, please feel free to ask! Consider the complement of any acute angle and the supplement of any obtuse angle. Is one of those always bigger (which one?) or might they vary? Consider…
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers – May/June 21

REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration on solutions, please feel free to ask! This brain teaser first appeared on 5/3/21. This is almost a ‘prime countdown day’. a) Why is it NOT? b) When will the next true prime countdown day occur? …
Possible Zoom Topics

Possible Fun One-Shot Zoom Topics Designed to be fun, and to fit in your hectic schedules, here are some possible topics that could surface at AME in the near future. All of these would be short (30-40 minutes), with time for questions. Interesting & Weird Mathematicians – And Stories About Them! A standing ovation for…
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers, Mar/Apr ’21 BTs

REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration, please feel free to ask! Consider π, 3.14, and 22/7. Write them in order from smallest to largest, or, if any are equal, mark EQUAL in appropriate spots..3.14, π, 22/7. Anita Dixon, Frank Green,…
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers; Jan/Feb ’21 BTs

REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration, please feel free to ask! Why are some folks already looking forward to Jan 1, ’23 at 5:08:13? The date lists the first 7 digits of the Fibonacci Sequence. (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34, . . .) Rita Barger,…
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers, Fall ’20 BTs

REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration, please feel free to ask! Mary’s mother had three daughters. The first two were named April and May. What was the name of the third daughter? Mary. Frank Green, Rita Barger, Amy Ragsdale, Alexis…
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers, Jul/Aug 20 BTs

REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration, please feel free to ask! Two is company and three is a crowd. 🙂 What are four and five? 9 (Nine). Frank Green, Rita Barger, Barb Blue, Amy Ragsdale a) Find the smallest integer that…