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STEELE
STEELE--Algebra Chpt 1 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| VARIABLE | LETTER OR SYMBOL USED TO REPRESENT A VALUE THAT CAN CHANGE |
| CONSTANT | VALUE THAT DOES NOT CHANGE |
| NUMERICAL EXPRESSION | MAY CONTAIN ONLY CONSTANTS AND OPERATIONS |
| ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION | MAY CONTAIN VARIABLES, CONSTANTS, AND OPERATIONS |
| EVALUATE | TO FIND THE VALUE |
| ABSOLUTE VALUE | DISTANCE FROM 0 ON THE NUMBER LINE (CAN ONLY BE POSITIVE) |
| OPPOSITES | WHEN THE SUM OF 2 NUMBERS IS 0 |
| ADDITIVE INVERSE | A NUMBER AND ITS OPPOSITE |
| POWER | AN EXPRESSION WRITTEN WITH A POWER AND A BASE |
| SQUARE ROOT | A NUMBER MULTIPLIED BY ITSELF TO FORM A PRODUCT |
| PERFECT SQUARE | NUMBER WHOSE POSITIVE SQUARE ROOT IS A WHOLE NUMBER (0,1,4,9,16,25,36,49,64,81,100 etc) |
| NATURAL NUMBERS | THE COUNTING NUMBERS |
| WHOLE NUMBERS | COUNTING NUMBERS plus 0 |
| INTEGERS | WHOLE NUMBERS AND THEIR OPPOSITES |
| RATIONAL NUMBERS | NUMBERS IN FRACTION FORM |
| TERMINATION DECIMALS | RATIONAL NUMBERS THAT HAVE A FINITE NUMBER OF DIGITS |
| REPEATING DECIMALS | RATIONAL NUMBERS IN DECIMAL FORM THAT REPEAT CONTINUOUSLY |
| ORDER OF OPERATIONS | Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract) |
| TERMS | PARTS OF AN EXPRESSION THAT ARE TO BE ADDED OR SUBTRACTED |
| LIKE TERMS | TERMS THAT CONTAIN THE SAME VARIABLE RAISED TO THE SAME POWER |
| COEFFICIENT | NUMBER MULTIPLIED BY A VARIABLE |
| COORDINATE PLANE | FORMED BY THE INTERSECTION OF TWO PERPENDICULAR NUMBER LINES |
| AXES | THE PERPENDICULAR LINES THAT INTERSECT IN A COORDINATE PLANE |
| ORIGIN | POINT OF INTERSECTION OF THE X AND Y AXES |
| X-AXIS | HORIZONTAL LINE OF THE COORDINATE PLANE |
| Y-AXIS | VERTICAL LINE OF THE COORDINATE PLANE |
| ORDERED PAIR | CONSISTS OF AN X-COORDINATE AND A Y-COORDINATE (x,y) |
| QUADRANTS | THE DIVISION OF THE COORDINATE PLANES BY THE X AND Y AXES (I,II,III,IV) |
| INPUT | A VALUE SUBSTITUTED FOR x |
| OUTPUT | A VALUE SUBSTITUTED FOR y |