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GED Math Notes#1-11
Math Review_Rubio_Notes #All
Question | Answer |
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What kind of test is the GED test? | Reading and Thinking |
How many steps to every word problem? | Four |
Step a. Read | Through the whole problem |
Step b. Say | I can do this |
Step c. Focus On | Bottom Line Question |
Step d. Think About | The Words Of The Question |
Ask | What do the words mean? |
What operation do I use? | Add Subtract Multiply Divide |
Combine and | Add |
How many more, how many less, what is the difference eft or any comparing words then | Subtract |
How many are IN something | Divide |
A part OF something (1/2 of 2000, 90% of salary) | Multiply |
Per in QUESTION means | Divide (per or unit rate refers to one.) |
If I know something about ONE and want to know about MORE then | Multiply |
If I know something about MORE and want to know about ONE, then | Divide |
Fractions | Part of One |
If the answer is a ratio, how many numbers do I need? | 2 |
What kind of problem is it when the problem tells me something about two things and then asks me something about the SAME two things? | Proportion |
What do I draw on my paper when I know I have one of these problems? | _______=_______ |
What do I put on the left line? | What I Know |
How do I work the problem? | Cross Multiply and Divide |
Decimals | Part of One |
Every fraction/decimal/percent can be written as | A fraction decimal percent |
Change a fraction to a decimal by | Top Number Divided By Bottom Number |
Change decimal to fraction by | Read It Write It Reduce It |
1/4 = | .25 |
1/2 = | .5 |
3/4 = | .75 |
1/3 = | .333 |
2/3 = | .667 |
Percentage | Part of 100 |
Every fraction/decimal/percent can be written as | fraction/decimal/percent. |
What are the three parts of a percentage problem? | Part Base Rate |
Triangles Part (piece of whole is) | รท Base X Rate (whole /of) (percent sign) |
Percent of Increase/Decrease | Subtract and Divide by Original Shift = |
Interest | P X T (years or months/12 x R shift = |
Perimeter | Add around sides |
Area | L X W (square units) = 2 |
Volume | L X W X H (cubic units) = 3 |
Mean | Average; Add & Divide |
Median | Middle number; Order numbers first |
Mode | Number repeated the most |