UIL Math Tricks
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Working with Imaginary Numbers (i)
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Imaginary Numbers are simply real numbers multiplied by the imaginary unit i which is representative of √ −1 . The reason we use i as th...
Friday, March 9, 2012
Forming Committees
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On every UIL Mathematics test, there seems to be a problem about forming a committee of people. To form a committee, you'll be dealing...
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Monday, February 27, 2012
GCD & LCM
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The Greatest Common Divisor of two numbers is the largest integer that can divide two numbers with a remainder of 0. This can be found by w...
Monday, February 13, 2012
Equidigital, Extravagant, and Frugal Numbers
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Equidigital, Extravagant, and Frugal Numbers are all related in that they deal with the number of digits in their prime factorization and th...
Friday, February 3, 2012
Directrix
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To find the Directrix of an equation, follow the following steps: 1. Write the equation of your parabola. For example, the equation might b...
Friday, January 27, 2012
Roots
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Example: If the roots of x^3 + bx^2 + cx + d = 0 are -1, 2, 5, then b + c + d equals: One method could be to expand (x+1)(x-2)(x-5) and the...
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Changing from Base 10 to Base 2
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(This is Marisa!) So I JUST discovered how to convert numbers from Base 10 to Base 2, which will occasionally show up on both the Mathemati...
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