Math Homework

A student was given math homework consisting of the following three problems. What is so special about this homework?

  1. What would the value of 190 in hexadecimal be?
  2. Twenty-nine is a prime example of what kind of number?
  3. At time t = 0, water begins pouring into an empty tank so that the volume of water is changing at a rate V’(t)=sec²(t). For time t = k, where 0 < k < π/2, determine the amount of water in the tank.

The answer to each of the problems in the homework is hidden within the question itself:

  1. What would the value of 190 in hexadecimal be?
    The answer is be.
  2. Twenty-nine is a prime example of what kind of number?
    The answer is prime.
  3. At time t = 0, water begins pouring into an empty tank so that the volume of water is changing at a rate V’(t)=sec²(t). For time t = k, where 0 < k < π / 2, determine the amount of water in the tank.
    The answer is tank.
Source:

Math Horizons, MAA