Pre-Calculus

3. a type of equation that employs an independent variable called a parameter
4. a heart-shaped curve
8. a round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point
10. a formula for finding any power of a binomial without multiplying at length
11. an enumerated collection of objects in which repetitions are allowed and order matters
13. roulette formed by the path of a point fixed to a circle when that circle rolls around the outside of a circle of equal radius.
14. a symmetrical open curve formed by the intersection of a circular cone with a plane at a smaller angle with its axis than the side of the cone
16. a2 + b2 = c2
17. ex: (3,pi/3)
20. ratio of the length of a side of a triangle to the sine of the angle opposite that side is the same for all sides and angles in a given triangle.
21. each of two or more fractions into which a more complex fraction can be decomposed as a sum
22. the value that a function approaches as the input approaches a given value
23. a type of sequence increasing by a common ratio
24. figure-eight or ∞-shaped curves

1. a symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side
2. roundness of a conic
5. a triangular array of numbers in which those at the ends of the rows are 1 and each of the others is the sum of the nearest two numbers in the row above
6. the inverse function to exponentiation
7. ex: parabola, hyperbola, circle
9. a description of the operation of adding infinitely many quantities, one after the other, to a given starting quantity
12. a regular oval shape
15. c2 = a2 + b2 – 2ab cos C
18. a quantity with direction and magnitude
19. a type of sequence where the difference between numbers is constant