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What is a mathematical sentence that uses an equal sign to show that two expressions are equal?
Equation
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What is the power of one?
A number raised to this power is equal to itself
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What is squaring a number?
Raising a number to a power of 2, or multiplying the number by itself
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How is scientific notation written?
The product of two numbers, where the first number is between 1 and 10 and the second number is a power of 10
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What are rational numbers?
Numbers that can be written as fractions
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What is a value that makes an equation true?
Solution
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What is the power of zero?
A number raised to this power is equal to 1
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What is squaring a number?
The inverse of taking a square root
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What does the power of 10 in scientific notation represent?
The number of times you moved the decimal
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What are irrational numbers?
Numbers that cannot be written as fractions
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What is the repeated factor of a power?
Base
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What do you with exponents when multiplying like bases?
The exponents are added
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What is the inverse of taking the cube root?
Cubing a number, or raising it to a power of 3
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What kind of numbers in scientific notation have negative exponents?
Numbers that are less than one (decimals)
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What is the set of whole numbers and their opposites?
Integers
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What is the number of times a base is used as a factor?
Exponent
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What do you do with exponents when dividing like bases?
The exponents are subtracted
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What is positive square root?
The principal square root
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What is 1,850,000 converted to scientific notation?
1.85 x 10^6
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What are examples of irrational numbers?
Non-terminating and non-repeating decimals
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What is 1 divided by a number relative to that number called, also known as the multiplicative inverse?
Reciprocal
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What do you do when an exponent is raised to another exponent?
The exponents are multiplied
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What are the two possible square roots of 49?
Positive 7 or negative 7
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What is 7.826 x 10^-3 converted to standard notation?
0.007826
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What is 1/2 as a decimal and a percent?
0.50 and 50%
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