Define the Word
Sum
What is the answer to an addition problem?
Absolute Value
What is the distance that an integer is from zero on the number line?
l-3l=3
Difference
10-3=7
7 is the difference
Least Common Multiple
What is the least number other than zero, that is a multiple of two or more numbers?
Exponent
What is the number that tells how many times the base is being multiplied by itself?
83 = 8 x 8 x 8
Terminating Decimal
What is a decimal with a finite number of digits?
3/4 = 0.75
Product
What is the answer to a multiplication problem?
Inequality
What is a statement that contains greater than, less than, greater than or equal to, and less than or equal to to compare two expressions?
-7 < -2
Equation
What is a mathematical sentence stating that two expressions are equal?
5 + 7 x 2 = 5 + 14
Rational Number
What is any number that can be written as a quotient a/b, where a and b are integers and b does not equal 0?
Unit Price
What is a unit rate that gives the price of one item?
$3 per watermellon.
Greatest Common Factor
What is the greatest number that is a factor of two or more numbers?
12 and 18
GCF is 6
Independent Variable
What is the variable that causes the dependent variable to change?
Repeating Decimal
What is a decimal in which a digit or digits repeat endlessly?
1/3 = .333333333...........
Percent
What is a rate in which the the first term is compared to 100?
2/5 = .80 = 80%