Test prep company uses Kim Kardashian's butt to teach math

Courtesy of Catalyst

Here's a cheeky way to do math.

Kim Kardashian's naked butt broke the internet - but now it's helping to fix students' understanding of basic geometry.

Catalyst, a test prep company, is using the ultimate semi-circle in its latest pop-culture-inspired questions to get kids primed for the SAT. (See questions below).

Catalyst's interest in Kardashian's image from the cover of Paper magazine is not just sexploitation. It's downright Platonic.

'Kim Kardashian's backside is almost perfectly circular,' company founder Jared Friedland tells the Daily News. 'As soon as we saw that, it occurred to me that we could teach three types of geometry questions.'

And as every eighth grade boy knows, Friedland is talking about circumference, angles and area of a circle. The median age of the test taker is 16, so Kardashian's naked butt is a perfect topic to cover.

For all three questions, Friedland superimposed circles atop Kardashians's famous rump - and he must know what he's doing because 85% of his students improve their scores by at least 200 points when they take a Catalyst course.

It's not first time pop culture inspired pop quizzes for Friedland. A few years ago, Friedland's team used before and after shots of Ashlee Simpson's nose job to quiz students on calculating the slope of a line.

So are you as smart as a 14 year old? Take the test below.

1. The celebrity booty pictured on the left has an area of 64 pi and is divided into eight congruent regions. What is the perimeter of one of these regions?

a) (16 + 32 pi)/3

b) (16 + 8 pi)/3

c) (16 + 4 pi)/3

d) 16 + 2 pi

e) 16 + 4 pi

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2. If the radius of the Kardashian on the left is 12 and the area of the highlighted, ahem, feature is 48 pi, what is the measure of the interior angle of sector indicated?

a) 90 degrees

b) 100 degrees

c) 110 degrees

d) 120 degrees

e) No clue, but, man, I sure like geometry.

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3. If a magazine editor were to photoshop the region on the left so that its diameter were doubled in length, what would be the resulting ratio of the new region's area to the original regions area? (Not that a magazine editor would ever do such a thing, of course.)

a) 1:1

b) 2:1

c) 4:1

d) 8:1

e) 16:1

For info about test prep, email info@catalystprep.com or call 800-235-0056.

Answers: D, D, C.

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