Vocabulary
This is a letter or symbol used to represent a value that can change.
What is a variable?
a+b+c=c+b+a
What is the commutative property (of addition)?
The counting numbers.
What are natural numbers?
x-5 (in words)
What is 5 less than x? or What is x minus 5?
A value that does not change.
What is a constant?
(AxB)xC=Ax(BxC)
What is the associative property (of multiplication)?
The counting numbers and zero.
What are whole numbers?
-8 -(-2)
What is -6?
Two numbers whose sum is 0.
A negative times a negative.
What is a positive?
The letter used to represent integers.
What is Z?
Simplify (-6)2
What is 36?
A number and its reciprocal.
What are multiplicative inverses?
The sum of a real number and its opposite is 0.
What is the inverse property of addition?
Numbers that can be expressed as a fraction, terminating decimal, or repeating decimal.
What are rational numbers?
The square root of 81.
What is 9?
The positive square root of a number.
What is the principal root?
Division by zero.
What is undefined?
A number with a finite number of digits after the decimal point.
What is a terminating decimal?
The cube root of (-1/64).
What is -1/4?