Chapter 1 Review

Rational Numbers

100

Numbers that can be written as fractions.

What are rational numbers?

200

Numbers that cannot be written as fractions.

What are irrational numbers.

300

.4 is this kind of decimal.

What is terminating decimal?

400

0.833333333...... is this kind of decimal.

What is repeating decimal?

500

2.1818181818181818.... written as a fraction.

What is 216/99?

Powers & Exponents

100

Tells us how many times the base is used as a factor.

What is an exponent?

200

The number of factors in 3 to the 4th power.

What is 4?

300

a(b)(b)(a)(b) written as an expression using only exponents.

What is a²b³?

400

(-2/3)⁴.

What is 16/81?

500

A school basketball court has an area of (2³)(3)(5²)(7) square feet. What is the area of the school basketball court?

What is 4,200 square feet?

Monomials

100

5²(5) simplified using the laws of exponents.

What is 5³ or 125?

200

n⁹/n⁴ simplified using the laws of exponents.

What is n⁵?

300

(4p³)⁴ simplified using the laws of exponents.

What is 256p¹²?

400

A division expression with a quotient of 5³.

Sample Answer: What is 5¹³/5¹⁰.

500

Twice 2⁸ written using exponents.

What is 2⁹?

Non+ Exponents

100

7⁰.

What is 1?

200

8^-2 using only a positive exponent.

What is 1/8²?

300

b^-4/b^-7 using only a positive exponent. 

What is b^3?

400

0.01 as a power of 10.

What is 10^-2?

500

A power of 10 that represents an atom that measures 0.0000000001 meter.

What is 10^-10?

Scientific Notation

100

A type of notation that uses a product of a factor and an integer power of 10.

What is scientific notation?

200

5.34 x 10⁴ written in standard form.

What is 53,400?

300

3,725,000 written in scientific notation.

What is 3.725 x 10⁶?

400

The larger of the two numbers (7.21 x 10⁵) and (1.3 x 10⁶).

What is (1.3 x 10⁶)?

500

The way scientific notation is used in the real world.

Answers vary.