math vocab ch 5
Terms
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- mode
- the # or #'s that occur most often in a set of data
- mixed number
- the indicated sum of a whoe # and a fraction
- rational number
- a number that can be written as a fraction in the form a/b where a and b are integers and b is 0
- mutiplicative inverses
- two numbers whose product is 1
- least common denominator
- the least common multiple of the denominators of two or more factors
- dimensional analysis
- the process of including units of measurement when computing
- measure of central tendency
- for a list of numberical data, #' s that can represent the whole set of data
- multiple
- the product of a number and a whole number
- bar notation
- in repeating decimals the line or bar places over the digits that repeat
- terminating decimal
- a decimal whos digits and every terminating decimal can be written as a fraction with a denominator of 10, 100, 1000 and so on
- median
- in a set of data the middle # of the ordered data or the mean of the two middle #s
- mean
- the sum of data divided by the # of items int he data set; average
- reciprocals
- another name for multiplicative inverse
- least common multiple
- the least of the non zero common multiples of two or more numbers
- repeating decimal
- a decimal whoes digits repeat in groups of one or more without end
- common multiples
- multiples that are shared by two or more numbers