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Can you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

Acquaint yourself with matters mathematical

With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan, but I meant the other type of English major: a person who studied English at university.

American maths author Ben Orlin has a new book out aimed at this demographic. (More on this below.)

the sum of all squares from 1 to 499

the sum of all cubes from 500 to 999

17% of 32

32% of 17

3997/4001

4996/5001

the square root of 6

the cube root of 15

the number of seconds in a year,

the number of hours in a millennium

2100

545

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