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EUS 1 PACE
Vocabulary for Real Numbers
Question | Answer |
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exponent | in a power, the number of times the base is used as a factor. |
integer | a whole number or its opposite. |
irrational numbers | numbers whose decimal form is non-terminating and do not have a pattern. |
powers | numbers written using exponents. |
Radical | a number that contains the symbol indicating that a square root should be performed (√). |
ratio | the comparison of two numbers that can be written in various ways. |
real numbers | all the numbers on the continuous number line with no gaps. |
scientific notation | a way of expressing numbers as the product of a number that is at least 1 but less than 10 and a power of 10. |
square root | one of the two equal factors of a number. “What number multiplied by itself gives me this number?” |
standard form | describes a numerical value written out with no exponents. |