Math Vocabulary
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- prime factor
- the prime factors of a quantity are all of the prime quantities that will exactly divide the given quantity
- acute triangles
- has 3 angles, all less than 90 degrees
- arc
- a continuous portion of a circle
- depreciate
- lose in value
- isosceles triangle
- a triangle with two equal sides
- lower quartile
- 25% quartile. The median of the lower data values in order.
- cubed
- The product in which a number is a factor three times.
- interquartile range
- The range of values between the first and the third quartile.
- pi
- the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle
- scientific notation
- A method of writing or displaying numbers in terms of a decimal number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10.
- box-and-whisker plot
- a graph that uses a rectangle (or box) to represent the middle 50% of a set and line segments at both ends to represent the remainder of the data
- compute
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- adjacent angle
- share a vertex and side but no interiors
- supplementary angles
- Two angles that add to 180º are called
- quartile
- (statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores
- scalene triangle
- a triangle with no two sides of equal length
- hypotenuse
- The longest side of a right triangle (directly across from the right angle.) "c" in the Pythagorean theorem
- successive
- consecutive
- discount
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
- interior angle
- the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon