Educational Technology Flashcards
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Which calculating devices are permitted during the AMC 12?
Answer: None; calculators have been prohibited since 2008
The MAA has banned all calculators on AMC 10/12 since 2008, so practice should be calculator-free.
A student checks a formula with the Python code print(sum(range(1, 101))). What is printed?
Answer: 5050
range(1, 101) covers 1 through 100, and 100·101/2 = 5050.
In a spreadsheet, A1 = 1 and A2 = A1*2 is filled down through A10. What value appears in A10?
Answer: 512
Each cell doubles the previous, so A10 = 2^9 = 512.
What does the Python expression 7 % 3 evaluate to?
Answer: 1
The % operator returns the remainder, and 7 = 2·3 + 1.
Graphing software plots y = x^2 - 4x + 3. At which x-values does the graph cross the x-axis?
Answer: x = 1 and x = 3
The quadratic factors as (x - 1)(x - 3), giving roots 1 and 3.
A coding exercise converts 13 to binary. What is the correct output?
Answer: 1101
13 = 8 + 4 + 1, which is 1101 in base 2.
A program counts the integers from 1 to 100 divisible by 3 or 5. What should it output?
Answer: 47
By inclusion-exclusion, 33 + 20 - 6 = 47.
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