Can you determine the name for each of the 25 pictures below?
Mathematics is involved in each of the answers -- Either the answer is a
math phrase or the picture involves mathematics.
Click on each picture below for a hint and a larger image.
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Solution to the Problem:
A-1. Horizontal Line (Horse on a Lion)A-2. Linear Pair or Parallel Line
A-3. Corresponding Angles or Right Angles (Writing to each other)
A-4. Noah's Ark
A-5. Square Root of Five B-1. Noel (2L - 2L = no L) or No Elves
B-2. Sign on the Dotted Line (Sine Curve)
B-3. Solution of Right Triangles
B-4. Rectangle (Wrecked Angle)
B-5. Pythagorean Theorem (Pythagorean Serum)
C-1. Hip Hip Hooray (Hip Hip Array)
C-2. Secant (Sick Ant)
C-3. Polyhedron (Polly, He'd Run) or Polygon (Polly Gone)
C-4. Polynomial (Polly, no meal!)
C-5. Prism (Prison) or concave D-1. Cosine (Go Sign) or Inverse Sine
D-2. Home on the Range (the set 3, 5, 8 is called the range)
or White House (Y House)
D-3. Hypotenuse (High Pot in Use)
D-4. Paradox (Pair of Docs)
D-5. Apothem (A Possum) E-1. Unit (You Knit)
E-2. Logarithms (Log Rhythms)
E-3. Parabolas (Pair of Bolas)
E-4. Integral Calculus (Inter-Gull Calculus)
E-5. A Piece of Pie Raised to the Teeth (A P sub pi Raised to the t(th))
Correctly solved by:
| 1. Henry Tran (solved 24 of the problems) | Harrisonburg Virginia |
| 2. Jeffrey Gaither (solved 24 of the problems) | University of Virginia Charlotteville, Virginia |
| 3. Charles Washington (solved 20 of the problems) | Winchester, Virginia |
| 4. Caitlin Bitto (solved 20 of the problems) | Winchester, Virginia |
| 5. Matthew Ahrnsbrak (solved 20 of the problems) | Winchester, Virginia |
| 6. Julianne Harris (solved 20 of the problems) | Winchester, Virginia |
Honorable Mention to:
| 7. John Funk | Ventura, California |
| 8. Tristan Collins | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia |
| 9. Ashley Hudson | Harrisonburg, Virginia |