Comparing Rational Numbers
Identify all the integers in the following set:
-2, 2.2, 6, 100, 5.66
What are -2, 6, 100?
What do you call the horizontal axis on a coordinate plane?
What is the x-axis?
An integer that represents "56 meters below sea level"
What is "-56"?
The product of 0.12 and 0.7.
What is 0.084? Multiply like you normally would and count ALL of the decimal places.
Margie paid $8.70 for sliced cheddar cheese, which cost $3.48 per pound. How many pounds of cheese did she buy?
What is 2.5 pounds?
Use an inequality sign to compare these two numbers: -12 and -5
What is -12 < -5 or -5 > -12?
Describe how you would plot this point: (0, -5)
What is you begin at the origin (0,0) and simply go down 5 units to plot your point? You do not have to go on the x-axis at all.
An integer to represent "a deposit of fifty dollars."
What is "+50"?
Find the sum of 2.17 and 0.018.
What is 2.188? Make sure to line up the place values!
An airplane climbs to 37,500 feet, then descends 10,000 feet. What is its current altitude? Write an expression to represent this.
What is 37,500 + (-10,000) = 27,500 feet?
A scuba diver is at -20 feet relative to see level, and a fish is at -24 feet. Compare their positions using an inequality.
what is -20 > -24?
or
-24 < -20?
In which quadrant does the point (-4, 6) belong?
What is Quadrant II?
What integer represents "a decrease of 26 employees"?
What is -26?
Jeffrey used 7 of his 20 tokes on one game at the arcade. What is this fraction written as a decimal?
What is 0.35?
Drew put his game piece on START. On his first turn, he moves his game piece ahead 7 spaces. On his second turn, Drew moves his game piece back 4 spaces. How many spaces away from START is his game piece now?
What is 3 spaces from START?
Write an inequality statement for the following numbers: -2/5 and -0.75
What is -0.75 < -2/5 or -2/5 > -0.75?
A point is located at (5, -1). Which axis would you move along first from the origin, and in which direction?
What is move right 5 units along the x-axis?
The absolute value of "-125" is...
What is 125? Absolute value is the distance from zero; so that means "-125" is 125 PLACES from zero.
Find the product of 3/7 and 1/3 (simplify).
What is 1/7? Your answer could be 3/21, but it states for it to be in its lowest term.
Salmon swimming up the river travel 2 feet under water. Suppose one salmon darts 3 feet up and out of the water. How far out of the water did the salmon jump?
What is 5 feet?
Put these rational numbers in order from least to greatest? 10, -2.65, 0, -1/4, 0.50, 2/3
What is -2.65, -1/4, 0, 0.50, 2/3, 10.
The distance between (-7, 0) and (13, 0)?
What is the distance of 20.
Explain this expression "-|-25|"
What is the opposite of the absolute value of -25? So your final value would be -25 :)
Find the quotient of 3/16 and 6/8?
What is 1/4?
Ellie had no money left in her lunch account, yet she ate four lunches that cost $3 each. After sending her account into the negative, her mom paid $10 into her lunch account. What was Ellie's final account balance?
What is -$2?