The Number System
The result of dividing a negative integer by a positive integer.
What is a negative number?
A comparison of two ratios.
What is a proportion?
Another word for a tip.
What is gratuity?
A letter used as a placeholder for an unknown number.
The inequality symbol uses to represent a maximum.
What is less than or equal to?
The type of decimal that has an infinite number of digits and does not repeat digits in any regular pattern.
What is a non-terminating decimal?
The price per one item or unit of measurement.
What is a unit price?
The decimal 0.08 expressed as a percent.
What is 8%?
The inverse operation of division.
What is multiplication?
The shape used to represent less than or greater than when graphing inequalities.
What is an open circle?
The distance between -3 and 2.
What is five?
A method to determine if two ratios form a proportional relationship.
What is cross multiplication?
The way businesses make a profit. Example: Amazon acquires (gets) an item for $3. Amazon then sells the item for $15.
What is markup?
An algebraic term used to describe the number 8 in the expression 14 + 8x - 2
What is coefficient?
The name of an inequality that describes when a value falls in between two values. Example: 2 < x < 8
What is a compound inequality?
A type of fraction that has a fraction in the numerator and/or denominator.
What is a complex fraction?
The equation used to model a proportional relationship.
What is y = kx?
A ratio comparing a measurement to an actual or real amount.
What is percent error?
The first operations eliminated when solving two-step equations (must name both).
What are addition and subtraction?
The solution to the inequality -2x < 4.
What is x > -2?
The number category including pi, the square root of a non-perfect square, and non-terminating decimals.
What are irrational numbers?
The ratio that compares output (y) to input (x).
What is the constant of proportionality?
The price before markups, discounts, or taxes are applied.
What is subtotal?
The property that explains why (3 + 2) + 4 is equivalent to 3 + (2 + 4).
This step is necessary when multiplying or dividing an inequality by a negative.
What is flip the inequality symbol?