What Do You Know About The Mountain Climbing Problem?

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What Do You Know About The Mountain Climbing Problem? - Quiz

Having received the Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award, the mountain climbing problem is a prominent problem in the field of mathematics. It revolves around finding the conditions that two different functions would form profiles of a two-dimensional mountain. To find out more, take this short quiz.

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1.

In which year did the mountain climbing problem receive the Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award?
- A.
  
  1985
- B.
  
  1990
- C.
  
  1995
- D.
  
  1999
2.

What defines a dimension?
- A.
  
  Area of space
- B.
  
  Number of planes
- C.
  
  Size of angles
- D.
  
  Number of coordinates
3.

How many parts does a complex number have?
- A.
  
  1
- B.
  
  2
- C.
  
  3
- D.
  
  4
4.

The mountain climbing problem makes sure that two climbers always have an identical factor. What is this factor?
- A.
  
  Height
- B.
  
  Surface
- C.
  
  Area
- D.
  
  Base
5.

When was the mountain climbing problem named?
- A.
  
  1965
- B.
  
  1966
- C.
  
  1967
- D.
  
  1977
6.

What is a real-valued function explicated on the real numbers, whose graph is composed of straight-line section?
- A.
  
  Piecewise linear function
- B.
  
  Minima function
- C.
  
  Absolute linear function
- D.
  
  Absolute function
7.

Which is an example of four-dimensional objects?
- A.
  
  Tesseract
- B.
  
  Coffee cups
- C.
  
  Spheres
- D.
  
  Prisms
8.

Who named the mountain climbing problem?
- A.
  
  James V. Whittaker
- B.
  
  Talithia Williams
- C.
  
  Freeman Dyson
- D.
  
  Scott W. Williams
9.

How can you find an approximation to a known curve? By...
- A.
  
  Sampling the curve
- B.
  
  Sampling the area
- C.
  
  Sampling the surface
- D.
  
  Interpolating the surface
10.

How many dimensions does the surface of a cylinder have?
- A.
  
  2
- B.
  
  4
- C.
  
  6
- D.
  
  8