Vocabulary | Exponent Rules | scientific notation | rational and irrational numbers | Square roots |
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What is base?
The number before the exponent.
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What is product of powers?
When multiplying two bases of the same value, keep the bases the same and then add the exponents together to get the solution.
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What is the following expression written in scientific notation? If not, explain why. 3.25 + 10^-7
No, it should be multiplied, not added.
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Rational or Irrational? 17
rational
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What is square root of 16?
4
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What is like terms?
Terms that are similar or have the same exponent or base.
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What is quotient of powers?
When dividing two bases of the same value, keep the base the same, and then subtract the exponent values.
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What is the mass of Jupiter is approximately 1,900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. Write the mass of Jupiter in scientific notation.
1.9 x 10^27
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Rational or Irrational? -34
rational
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What is square root of 4?
2
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What is variable?
a letter in replacement of a number or value
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What is power of a power?
multiply the exponents together and keep the base the same.
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What is the mass of a Monarch butterfly is about 9.5 x 10^-3. Write this number in standard form.
.0095
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Rational or Irrational? 214
rational
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What is square root of 25?
5
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What is square root?
A number that is times by itself twice to get a number
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What is zero power?
Any base raised to the power of zero is equal to one.
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The size of the Sahara desert is about 3.629 x 10^6 square miles and the Arabian desert is about 9 x 10^5 square miles. Which desert is larger? Explain how you know.
Sahara, because the exponent is bigger.
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Rational or Irrational? square root of 2
irrational
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What is square root of 100?
10
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What is exponent?
a tiny number above the base that shows how many times a number will be multiplied by itself
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What is negative exponent?
When there is a number being raised by a negative exponent, flip it into a reciprocal to turn the exponent into a positive.
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The size of the four oceans, in square km, is shown below. List the oceans from smallest to largest. Pacific Ocean - 1.7965 x 10^8, Arctic Ocean - 1.323 x 10^7, Atlantic Ocean - 1.061 x 10^8, Indian Ocean - 7.49 x 10^7
Arctic, Indian, Atlantic, Pacific
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Rational or Irrational? square root of 3
irrational
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What is square root of 121?
12
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