Rational Numbers
Numbers that can be written as fractions.
What are rational numbers?
Tells us how many times the base is used as a factor.
What is an exponent?
52(5) simplified using the laws of exponents.
What is 53 or 125?
70.
What is 1?
Numbers that cannot be written as fractions.
What are irrational numbers.
The number of factors in 3 to the 4th power.
What is 4?
n9/n4 simplified using the laws of exponents.
What is n5?
What is 1/64?
5.34 x 104 written in standard form.
What is 53,400?
.4 is this kind of decimal.
What is terminating decimal?
a(b)(b)(a)(b) written as an expression using only exponents.
What is a2b3?
(4p3)4 simplified using the laws of exponents.
What is 256p12?
b-4/b-7 using only a positive exponent.
What is b3?
3,725,000 written in scientific notation.
What is 3.725 x 106?
0.833333333...... is this kind of decimal.
What is repeating decimal?
(-2/3)4.
What is 16/81?
A division expression with a quotient of 53.
Sample Answer: What is 513/510.
0.01 as a power of 10.
What is 10-2?
The larger of the two numbers (7.21 x 105) and (1.3 x 106).
What is (1.3 x 106)?
2.1818181818181818.... written as a fraction.
What is 216/99?
In the United States, nearly 8 x 109 text messages are sent every month.
The approximate number of text messages sent each month written in standard form.
What is 8,000,000,000 or 8 billion?
The processing speed of a certain computer is 1011 instructions per second. Another computer has a processing speed that is 103 times as fast.
The number of instructions per second the faster computer can process as a power of 10.
What is 1014 instructions?
The mass of a molecule of penicillin is 10-18 kilogram and the mass of a molecule of insulin is 10-23 kilogram.
The number of times greater the mass of a molecule of penicillin is than the mass of a molecule of insulin.
What is 105 or 100,000 times?
There are approximately 45 hundred species of mammals on Earth and 2.8 x 104 species of fish.
The difference in the number of species.
What is 23,500?