Vocabulary | Properties | Review |
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What is a Quotient-Remainder Form?
When you have a quotient and a remainder.
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What is For all numbers a & b b does not equal 0?
a/b = -a/-b and -a/b =
a/-b = - a/b. |
What is a Coefficient?
A numerical value by which a variable is multiplied. (Chapter 8)
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What is Proportion?
An equation stating that two fractions are equal.
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What is the Division Property of Equality?
If a=b and c does not equal 0, then
a/c=b/c. |
What is a Reciprocal?
Two numbers whose product is 1.
(Chapter 7) |
What is Proportional Thinking?
The ability to obtain an answer to a proportion without
solving an equation. |
What is the Ratio-Comparison Model for Division?
If A and B are quantities with the same units, then A/B compares A to B.
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What is a Scalene Triangle?
A triangle in which all sides are different lengths. (Chapter 4)
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What is Integer Division?
an integer A divided by an integer B in which there is an integer quotient Q and a remainder R with A = BQ + R and 0 + R < B.
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What is the Mean-Extremes Property?
In any true proportion, the product of the means = the product of the extremes.
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What is a Fundamental Region?
The smallest figure whose congruent images make up a tessellation?
(Chapter 6) |
What is Ratio-Comparison?
Ratios are formed by dividing one quantity by
another with the same unit. |
What is the Division Property of Inequalities?
For any real numbers x and y: If x < y
and a is positive, then x/a < y/a. For any real numbers x and y: If x < y and a is negative, then x/a > y/a. |
What are Mutually Exclusive Events?
Events that cannot occur at the same time.
(Chapter 5) |