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Algebra
Properties
Mystery Category
Language of Algebra
100

A number's distance from zero (0) on a number line.

Absolute value

100

A collection of numbers, symbols, and/or operation signs that stands for a number.

What is an expression

100


When two numbers are added, the sum is the same regardless of the order in which the numbers are added. What mathematical property am I?


The commutative property of addition

100

A pair of numbers that when multiplied with another number equals the number 1a/b is b/a, where a isn't equal to 0 and b isn't equal to 0.

Reciprocal or multiplicative inverse.

100

The product of a number, n, and four

What is 4n?

200

What is the set of natural whole numbers and their opposites? 

What are integers.

200

A symbol that represents an unknown quantity

What is a variable

200

What property am I?

When three or more numbers are added, the sum is the same regardless of the grouping of the addends. For example (a + b) + c = a + (b + c)


Associative Property of Addition

200

When we add a negative integer and a negative integer, the result is ___________.

What is a negative integer?

200

Use distributive property to find the product

5( a+6)

what is 5a + 30?

300

A method of writing very large or very small numbers using exponents in which a number is expressed as the product of a power of 10 and a number that is greater than or equal to one (1) and less than 10 (e.g.,7.59 x 10^5=759,000).

What is scientific notation

300

To get a variable alone on one side of the equation in order to solve the equation.

What is isolate

300


When two numbers are multiplied together, the product is the same regardless of the order in which the numbers are multiplied. What property am I?


The commutative property of multiplication

300

The product of -4/5 and -3/8 is equal to _______. 

12/40 or 3/10

300

Simplify the following expression:

8- (-4)

What is 12?

400

The quotient of two integers with the same sign

What is positive

400

Operations that undo each other

What are inverse operations?

400


What property am I? 

The sum of two numbers times a third number is equal to the sum of each addend times the third number. For example a x (b + c) = a x b + a x c


The distributive property

400

A method of writing very large or very small numbers using exponents in which a number is expressed as the product of a power of 10 and a number that is greater than or equal to one (1) and less than 10 (e.g.,7.59 x 10^5=759,000).

What is scientific notation

400

The quotient of a number x and 4, to the second power.

(x/4)2

500

Place these integers in order from least to greatest

-12, -20/6, 2.25, 12/4, -32/8, 3/4

-12, -32/8, -20/6, 3/4, 2.25, 12/4

500

notation of how many times to multiply a quantity by itself

What is an exponent?

500

What property am I?

 a = b, then a x c = b x c.
If you multiply the same number to both sides of an equation, the equation is still true.



Property of Equality for Multiplication

500

The sum of two numbers is zero is referred to as this__________. 

What is the additive inverse.

500

Write in standard form:

2.59 X 10-3

.00259