Setting the Stage
Read Between the Lines
Slippery Slopes
Number, Numbers Everywhere
Variables
100
The highest score you can receive on the ACT?
What is a 36?
100
When a line is parallel to another, this variable is the same for both lines.
What is the slope?
100
A plane formed by the intersection of the x and y axes.
What is a coordinate plane?
100
A mathematical sentence that uses an equal sign to show that two quantities are equal.
What is an equation?
100
An educated guess in a scientific experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
200
The only electronic device allowed while taking the ACT.
What is a calculator?
200
The word or phrase that take readers from one idea to the next, signaling the relationship of ideas.
What is a transition?
200
The slant or steepness of a line determined by "rise over run."
What is slope?
200
An unknown quantity often represented by a letter in an equation.
What is a variable?
200
This letter in the equation of a line is the variable for slope.
What is "m"?
300
The optional portion of the ACT test.
What is writing?
300
An educated guess based on information or evidence in a story.
What is an inference?
300
The equation for finding slope using two sets of coordinates.
What is y2-y1/x2-x1?
300
A comparison of two quantities that can be written in the following three ways: 4 to 3, 4:3, or 4/3.
What is a ratio?
300
A variable that is purposely changed in an experiment?
What is an independent variable?
400
The four subjects that are tested on the ACT.
What are English, Reading, Math, and Science?
400
The assumed meaning of a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning.
What is the connotative meaning?
400
The slope of line perpendicular to another can be found by being converted to this.
What is the negative reciprocal?
400
The number, in a set of numbers, that appears the most.
What is the mode?
400
The variable that identifies the first point in a set of coordinates.
What is a x?
500
The average ACT score that will get me admitted into many colleges.
What is a 21?
500
The equation of a line.
What is y=mx+b?
500
What is the slope in the equation 3x+6y=2
What is -1/2?
500
The solution to the equation: 3x + 4x(2)-5=0
What is x=5/11?
500
In an science experiment, this variable is held constant during an experiment.
What is a controlled variable?
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