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Chapter 2 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| compatible numbers | Numbers that are easy to compute with mentally. |
| dividend | The number that is to be divided in a division problem. |
| divisor | The number that divides the dividend. |
| estimate | Do this to find a number that is close to the exact amount. |
| factor | A number multiplied by another number to find a product. |
| partial quotients | A method of dividing in which multiples of the divisor are subtracted from the dividend and then the quotients are added together. |
| product | The answer to a multiplication problem. |
| quotient | The number that results from dividing. |
| remainder | The amount left over when a number cannot be divided equally. |
| inverse operations | Opposite operations, or operations that undo each other, such as addition and subtraction or multiplication and division. |