Chapter 15 Test (Day 161)

This is what Theoni Pappas writes on page 144 of her Magic of Mathematics:

"In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation adds a new story to the old structure." -- Hermann Hankel, 19th century German mathematician

"In these days of conflicts between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and youngest of all." -- G.H. Hardy, 20th century British mathematician (who helped Ramanujan!)

Pappas begins Chapter 6 with a few pages of introductory material. Unfortunately, we won't get past these intro pages and start the first section of Chapter 6 until next week.

Here are the Chapter 15 Test answers:

1. 144pi - 288 square units.
2. 178 degrees.
3. Arc DE = 65 degrees.
4. Many answers are possible, for example Angle A = 47.5 degrees.
5. 14 degrees.
6-7. These are visual, so I can't put the answers here.
8. 21.
9. a. (-2, 9). b. 7. c. Many answers are possible. To find lattice points on the circle, we go right, left, up, and down seven units, to obtain (5, 9), (-9, 9), (-2, 16), and (-2, 2).
10. a. (0, 0). b. sqrt(72). c. This time, sqrt(72) = 6sqrt(2), so we can go diagonally to find lattice points on the circle, to obtain (6, 6), (-6, 6), (6, -6), and (-6, -6).
11. This is the complete the square question -- included because such problems are on PARCC!
x^2 + y^2 - 8y = 9
x^2 + y^2 - 8y + 16 = 25
x^2 + (y - 4)^2 = 25
So this gives us:
11. a. (0, 4). b. 5. c. (5, 4), (-5, 4), (5, 9), and (5, -1).
12. a. A circle with radius 20 feet. b. 40pi feet.
13. Draw any circle.
14. About 1.68%. I set this question in Brazil because the Olympics are about to start!
15. 15.
16. Cavalieri's Principle. Take that, traditionalists!
17. a. When the line and circle intersect in a point. b. When the line is perpendicular to the radius at the point of tangency. PARCC contains a few tangent problems, and all of them appear to involve angle measures, so that right angle is important.
18. a. 36 degrees. b. 18 degrees. PARCC also contains problems on inscribed angle measure -- possibly in the same question as tangents.
19. a. About 2.5 or 2.6 cm. b. The ratio to the circumference to the diameter is -- what else -- pi. We see that we estimate pi as either 3.08 or 3.2 using this measurement. Interestingly enough, 3.14 is almost exactly halfway between these two estimates.
20. a. 24 square units. (The height is 4, using the Pythagorean Theorem) b. About 38.5 square units.