Inequality Statements
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What is less than?
This set of numbers is made up of all rational and irrational numbers.
What are real numbers?
A real number that cannot be expressed as a fraction.
What is an irrational number?
A number that contains both a whole number and a fraction.
What is a mixed number?
A number that contains a decimal point and one or more digits to the right of the decimal point.
What is a decimal (AKA "decimal number")?
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What is greater than?
A real number that can be expressed as a fraction is called this.
What is a rational number?
The distance of a number from zero on a number line.
What is an absolute value?
In a fraction, this is the number above the line. It tells how many parts are being considered.
What is a numerator?
The period in a decimal number that separates the whole number part of the decimal from the fractional part of the decimal.
What is a decimal point?
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What is less than or equal to?
This set of numbers includes all whole numbers and their opposites.
What are integers?
The product of a number times itself.
What is a perfect square?
In a fraction, this is the number below the line. It tells how many equal parts make up the whole.
What is a denominator?
A decimal number with a digit or group of digits that repeats forever.
What is a repeating decimal?
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What is greater than or equal to?
This set of numbers includes all natural numbers and zero.
What are whole numbers?
A result obtained by dividing one quantity by another.
What is a quotent?
A number that contains both a whole number and a fraction.
What is a mixed number?
A decimal that ends at a specific value after the decimal point.
What is a terminating decimal?
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What is approximately* equal to?
This set of numbers starts at 1 and includes 2, 3, 4, and so on.
What are natural numbers?
A visual display of numbers in relation to each other.
What is a number line?
A word for the denominator of a fraction.
What is a divisor?
3.14159...
What is pi?