Vocabulary I
The four regions in a coordinate plane.
What are quadrants?
Whole numbers less than 0.
What are negative integers?
Since distance cannot be negative, the absolute value of a number is always _________ or __________ .
What is positive or zero?
l-15l + l-6l
What is 21?
Write 5/12 as a decimal.
What is 0.4166... or 0.416 with bar notation?
Any number that can be written as a fraction.
What is a rational number?
Whole numbers greater than zero.
What are positive integers?
What are budgets, elevation above or below sea level, football gains and losses, golf scores, and temperature changes.
l-20l - l17l
What is 3?
Write -2/9 as a decimal.
What is -0.222... or -0.2 with bar notation?
Positive whole numbers, their opposites, and zero.
What are integers?
Two integers represented on the number line by points that are the same distance from zero, but on different sides of zero.
What are opposites?
The opposite of zero.
What is zero?
l2l + l-13l
What is 15?
Write - 2 2/3 as a decimal.
What is -2.6 or -2.6 with bar notation?
A bar placed over the digits that repeat indefinitely.
What is bar notation?
The distance between a number and zero on a number line.
What is absolute value?
The opposite of the opposite of a number.
What is the number itself?
-l-17l
What is -17?
Write -0.5 as a fraction in simplest form.
What is - 1/2?
A decimal is called this if its repeating digit is zero.
What is a terminating decimal?
The decimal form of a rational number.
What is a repeating decimal?
Since _________ _________ is always positive, it is not used to compare and order integers.
What is absolute value?
The opposite of the opposite of 9.
What is 9?
Write -3.8 as a mixed number in simplest form.
What is - 3 4/5?