Quiz

A Square and A Cube — Quiz

15 questions 15 min Apply concepts

  1. Q1. In Queen Ratnamanjuri's puzzle the kth servant toggles every locker whose number is

  2. Q2. Khoisnam observes that some lockers were toggled exactly twice — these are the passcode lockers. Which numbered lockers were toggled exactly twice?

  3. Q3. The square idea extends to fractions and decimals. The value of (2.5)² is

  4. Q4. On the textbook defines a square number. Which of the following is the textbook's definition?

  5. Q5. The rule: if a number ends in 6, its square also ends in 6. Which of these squares ends in 6?

  6. Q6. Rohini reads that the square of an even number is even and the square of an odd number is odd. Without computing, she can say that 137² is

  7. Q7. The difference between consecutive squares is always odd. The value of 15² − 14² is

  8. Q8. Between n² and (n + 1)² there are exactly 2n non-square numbers. How many non-square numbers lie between 12² and 13²?

  9. Q9. Two consecutive triangular numbers add up to a square — for example, 1 + 3 = 4 and 3 + 6 = 9. The sum 10 + 15 equals

  10. Q10. Priya uses the listing-of-squares method to find √576. She lists 20² = 400, 21² = 441, 22² = 484, 23² = 529, 24² = 576. Therefore √576 is

  11. Q11. Aman uses repeated-subtraction method on 81: 81 − 1 = 80, 80 − 3 = 77, 77 − 5 = 72, … He stops when the result is 0. The number of subtractions he performed equals

  12. Q12. A square garden has area 441 sq metres. Using prime factorisation in pairs, what is the length of one side of the garden?

  13. Q13. Asks how many 1 cm cubes are needed to make a larger cube of edge 2 cm. The answer is

  14. Q14. The first few perfect cubes. The value of 5³ is

  15. Q15. The cube root of 1000 using the inverse-of-cubing idea. The cube root of 1000 is

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