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Jackson vocab 1-10
Vocab list 1st 10 words
Term | Definition |
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Real Numbers | The set of all rational and irrational numbers. |
Absolute Value | The distance of a number from zero. |
Order of Operations | PEMDAS, The rules for evaluating expressions. |
Expression | A representation of a quantity that may contain numbers, variables or operation symbols |
Variable | A letter used to represent a number |
Coefficient | Then numerical factor of a term that contains a variable. |
Term | Each part of an algebraic expression separated by an addition or subtraction sign. |
Scientific Notation | A compact way of writing numbers with absolute values that are very large or very small. |
Exponential Form | a way of representing repeated multiplications of the same number by writing the number as a base with the number of repeats written as a small number to its upper right. |
Negative Exponent | The result of repeated division used to represent very small numbers |