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Muhammad-bin-Musa Khawarizmi was born in ____ in Khawarizim.
A
760
B
750
C
780
D
770
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Few details of al-Khwārizmī’s life are known with certainty. Ibn al-Nadim gives his birthplace as Khwarazm, and he is generally thought to have come from this region. His name means ‘the native of Khwarazm’, a region that was part of Greater Iran, and is now part of Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Detailed explanation-2: -Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a Persian Shi’a Muslim mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born in Persia of that time around 780 and he died around 850. We have a little true knowledge about the life of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi.

Detailed explanation-3: -Al-Khwarizmi was born in about AD 780, and although his birthplace isn’t known for sure, the al-Khwārizmī in his name can mean “the native of Khwarazm”, which at the time was part of Greater Iran, but is now part of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, so many believe he grew up in that area.

Detailed explanation-4: -Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer geographer and a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. He was born in Persia of that time around 780. Al-Khwarizmi was one of the learned men who worked in the House of Wisdom.

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