Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Squares and Square Roots? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What is the length of the hypotenuse in the right triangle shown below?
32
130
64
Q. The picture below shows a blue square inside a black square. What is the area of the blue square?
This is a trick question; the blue shape isn't really a square.
1465
4473
This is a trick question; blue isn't really a color.
Q. Which statement does the Pythagorean Theorem make about the triangle shown below?
a2 + b2 = c2
b2 + c2 = a2
a2 + c2 = b2
c2 – a2 = b2
b2 + a2 = c
Q. How many real number solutions are there to the radical equation
?
zero
one
two
infinitely many
I don't have time to count them; I've got things to do
Q. Solve:
.
This equation has no real number solutions.
Q. Solve:
.
This equation has no real number solutions.
Q. x2 is proportional to the square root of (x + 1), with constant of proportionality 
. Which equation best describes this relationship?
. Which equation best describes this relationship? 
Q. To get to the store, Dyuri drove in a straight line northeast for 20 miles at 40 miles per hour. If instead Dyuri had gone east for 12 miles and then straight north (going 40 miles per hour), how many minutes longer would it have taken him to get to the store?
12
16
24
42
Depends...did he stop for ice cream?
Q. Find the length of the diagonal in the rectangle shown below.
Q. A balloon tied to the roof of a twenty foot building is being blown sideways by the wind and hovering in the air 50 feet above the ground. The sun is directly overhead and the balloon is casting a shadow 10 feet from the edge of the building. How many feet long is the balloon string?
50
40