Colegio de San Juan de Letran-Calamba

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School of Education, Arts and Sciences

Name: ______________________________________ Score: __________________
Section: _______________________________________ Professor: Mr. Ricky F. Dancel

Quiz no. 1
Ancient Chinese Mathematics

A. Modified True or False

______1. The Nine Chapter is the earliest Chinese work having mathematical
content
______2. In this chapter II of Jiuzhang suanshu, the Euclidean algorithm
method for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers is
given.
______3. The Jiuzhang suanshu consists of 246 problems.
______4. Problem 28 in the first chapter of Jiuzhang suanshu shows an
accurate approximation of π.
______5. The oldest text on arithmetic in existence
______6. In chapter II of the Nine Chapters, arithmetic and geometric
progressions were used in some of the problems.
______7. The second chapter of Jiuzhang suanshu, the mathematics involves a
study of proportion and percentages and introduces the rule of three
for solving proportion problems.
______8. The chapter IV of the nine chapters contains 24 problems and takes
its name from the first twelve problems
______9. The problems in chapter VI were varied and concern problems about
travelling, taxation, sharing etc.
______10. Liu Hui approximates p as 3.141014 and suggested 3.14 as a
practical approximation.

B. Enumeration: Complete the table of the Jiuzhang suanshu below.

Chapters Chapters
No. of Problems
(Chinese) (English)