Chapter 1 Vocabulary
Across
- 3. The opposite of a number is its additive inverse.
- 5. A number, a variable, or a combination of numbers and variables using operation symbols.
- 8. The product of prime numbers that equals the number.
- 11. In a fraction, written a/b, where b≠0, B is the number of equal parts the whole has been divided into.
- 13. The whole numbers and their opposites.
- 16. A number that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers. Its decimal form does not stop and does not repeat.
- 17. The absolute value of a number is its distance from 0 on the number line.
- 19. A number less than 0 is _____.
- 20. The reciprocal of a number.
- 22. A number of the form /pq, where p and q are integers and q≠0. Its decimal form stops or repeats.
- 23. A constant, or the product of a constant and one or more variables.
- 24. A counting number greater than 1 whose only factors are 1 and the number itself.
- 26. The number 0 is the additive identity because adding 0 to any number does not change its value.
- 28. A fraction in which the numerator and/or the denominator is a fraction.
- 30. A ratio whose denominator is 100.
- 31. The coefficient of a term is the constant that multiplies the variable in a term.
Down
- 1. The number 1 is this because multiplying 1 by any number does not change its value.
- 2. Means to do all the math possible.
- 4. Found by inverting the fraction, placing the numerator in the denominator and the denominator in the numerator.
- 6. A composite number is a counting number that is not prime. It has factors other than 1 and the number itself.
- 7. Fractions that have the same value.
- 9. If a⋅b=m, then a and b are factors of m.
- 10. A letter that represents a number whose value may change.
- 12. A number that is either rational or irrational.
- 14. Two expressions connected by an equal sign.
- 15. Established guidelines for simplifying an expression.
- 18. Is the number that is the same distance from zero on the number line but on the opposite side of zero.
- 21. A number whose value always stays the same.
- 25. Means to find the value of the expression when the variables are replaced by given numbers.
- 27. Terms that are either constants or have the same variables raised to the same powers.
- 29. Is written a/b, where b≠0, and a is the numerator and b is the denominator; represents parts of a whole.