Marion Munchie Udarbe

Course: BSA

Subject and Code: GE4 (6940)

PRACTICE SET 1

Essay Writing.

1. What new ideas about mathematics did you learn?

I was studying advanced series and sequences at the time. Although this
concept may not be valid every day in real life, the skills you will learn can
help you understand almost every sequence or series problem. Since it's a
basis, you could invent something about the amount of the constant number
formula, which will sound a little motivating.

2. What is most useful about mathematics for humankind?

The most valuable operations are those that are used on a daily basis.
Statistics are used in surveys, demographic studies, sports, and other areas
of higher mathematics. Arithmetic, Geometry, and Trigonometry, which are
used in specialist fields, are also useful on a daily basis.

3. The Blind Men and the Elephant is a famous Indian fable that tells the story of
six blind sojourners that come across different parts of an elephant in their life
journeys. In turn, each blind man creates his own version of reality from that
limited experience and perspective. How you relate this story in the study of
mathematics?
The Blind Men and the Elephant, an Indian folktale, is relevant to the field of
mathematics. Mathematics is seen through the eyes of each person in a
 unique way. Math was once thought to be a study of numbers and arithmetic
operations by others. Others believe that math produces correct results. We
seem to have different interpretations of math depending on how we see it,
just as in the fable where each individual's decision is only based on one part
of the elephant. This demonstrates that the subject of mathematics is much
too general.

4. Suppose a newly-born pair of rabbits, one male and one female, are put in a
field. Rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its
second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits. Suppose that our
rabbits never die and that the female always produces one new pair (one
male, one female) every month from the second month on. How many pairs
will there be in one year?

5. Henry Dudeny, an English puzzle book author in the early 1900s, came up
with the following simplified version of Fibonacci’s logic: If a cow produces its
first female calf at age two years and produces another female calf every year
after that, how many female calves are there after five years if we start with
one newborn female calf and no calves die?
6. There are two types of female honeybees: workers, which produce no eggs,
and the queen, which produces eggs. Drone bees are males that are
produced from the has no father, because the egg was never fertilized.
Worker females and queen queen’s unfertilized eggs. A drone’s mother is the
queen that laid the egg. But a drone females are produced from the queen’s
fertilized eggs. So each type of female has a father as well as a mother,
because the female eggs were fertilized. Describe how the numbers of
ancestors of a drone honeybee are Fibonacci numbers.
7. a.)

Fn

F
F
F

Fn

F
F
F30 = 𝟖𝟑𝟐, 𝟎𝟒𝟎

b.)
Fn = Fn-1 + Fn-2
F31 = F30 + F29
F31 = 832,040 + 514,229
F31 = 1,346,269
8. The 15th and 16th Fibonacci numbers are 610 and 987, respectively. Divide
the larger of these numbers by the smaller. What do you observe?

Answer: 15th : 610 16th: 987 17th: 1,597

9. The picture below is the façade of the Parthenon, a former temple on the
Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the
people of Athens considered their patron. Construction began in 447 BC when
the Athenian Empire was at the peak of its power. Today's claim is that the
facade of the Parthenon fits in a golden rectangle. Study carefully the picture
and prove the claim by describing how the golden ratio was applied?

9. There are several ways of looking at how the Parthenon has been related to
the golden ratio. The calculation of the lower part of the Parthenon is 1.618
 and the upper part (or the roof part) is 1. But the best way to understand why
this fits the golden ratio is Also, irrespective of how broad or narrow it is, the
lower part of it measures 1 and the upper part measures 1.618 in the roof
part alone. This can, on the other side, be clarified using a golden rectangle
as well. You must first build a square to illustrate this (unit square). Draw a
line from the midpoint to one corner on the opposite side, which gives us the
hypotenuse weighing approximately 1,118. We use this line from that line as
the radius to be able to draw an arc with the midpoint as an extension of the
side. This brings us the golden rectangle, where the golden ratio is the length
of the longer line. And we can fit the Parthenon into the golden rectangle.
While analysis indicates that the Parthenon does not really obey the golden
ratio, it is one way of reminding us that to build a structure based on beauty,
the golden ratio is important in architecture.

10. Note that Liza's face is symmetrical and that her face is mathematically
flawless is enough to tell. Yet her face has a lot to look at, which may reflect a
golden ratio. The length of her face must be around 1.618 and the width must
be 1, so 1.618:1 is the ratio. Enough to conclude that it is symmetrical and
equal to Liza's forehead. Studies have also found that the dimensions of the
various segments of the face must be equal, i.e. the measurements from the
hairline of the forehead to the spot between the eyes, from the spot between
the eyes to the bottom of the nose, and from the bottom of the nose to the
bottom of the jaw. She has similar measurements for these segments just by
looking at Liza's forehead. Study also offers a golden mask created by the
golden ratio, and the mask fits perfectly into the face of Liza.

11. Slopes also depend on the number of spirals. Although the number of spirals
are consecutive Fibonacci numbers, we have 21 and 55 spirals, hence
selecting different slopes from clockwise spirals. The counter clockwise spiral
number is 34. It is also correct that consecutive Fibonacci numbers, which
are 21,34 and 55, are the number of spirals.
(https://momath.org/home/fibonacci-numbers-of-sunflower-seedspirals/)
12. Moreover, every fifth number is the numbers that are divisible by 5, and every
sixth number is the numbers that are divisible by 8. This is surely not a
coincidence; this is one of the Fibonacci sequence's special characteristics,
in truth. There are several means of proving this, either visually or
geometrically, and proof from numerous lemmas, theorems, etc.

13. By the figure given below, the vertex angle is given by .

that , then .

14. The divergence angle is 137.5°.

15. The left one has 8 gently- sloping spirals, the middle one has 13 steeper
spirals, and the right one has 21 very steep spirals.