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Question 1 of 12
1. Question
The Staircase of Mount Meru. Yang Hui’s Triangle. The Khayyam Triangle. These are all other civilizations’ words for what the western world calls:
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Question 2 of 12
2. Question
Where was Pascal’s Triangle first discovered?
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Hint: these characters were written by those ancient people using their invention of the number system.
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Question 3 of 12
3. Question
What is the rule for Pascal’s triangle:
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Question 4 of 12
4. Question
One use of Pascal’s triangle is:
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Question 5 of 12
5. Question
Pascal’s triangle can help you figure out the _____ of having 2 boys out of 5 children. It turns out that this is a 31.25% chance.Fill in the blank
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Question 6 of 12
6. Question
What happens if you run along the diagonal of the triangle, on the second diagonal?
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Hint: the first diagonal is just all ones.
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Question 7 of 12
7. Question
You can bend Pascal’s triangle to the left, like the ancient Indians did. Then, adding up the diagonals gives a special sequence…
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Question 8 of 12
8. Question
What number appears in the 4th row, 2nd from the left?
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Question 9 of 12
9. Question
Leonardo de Pisa’s daughter, Filanacci, has been given two big Fibonacci numbers that are next to each other in the sequence. She wonders what will happen when she divides them. Do you know the decimal that she will get?
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Question 10 of 12
10. Question
Have you ever seen a human pyramid? For example in the picture below. Notice how 6 people make a perfect pyramid. What other numbers of people can make perfect pyramids?
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Hint: Look at the third diagonal on Pascal’s triangle
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Question 11 of 12
11. Question
What is 11×11? What row of the triangle does this remind you of?
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Hint: Count rows from the top. So, the first row is 1, the second row is 1, 1, and so on
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Question 12 of 12
12. Question
Fill in the blank
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Stump your parents: Ask them what 11 x 11 x 11 x 11 is.
They will not know that you can look at the 5th row of Pascal’s triangle for the answer:
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