Vocabulary Test #1: Makeup Version

You have to ______________ to find the value of a numerical or algebraic expression.

The distance a number is from zero is called ______________________.

What kind of number cannot be expressed as a terminating or repeating decimal?

• rational number

• irrational number

• real number

• whole number

What is the number that is used as a factor the number of times indicated by the exponent or power?

• exponent

• base

• real number

• Square root

a number multiplied by a variable or the first factor (greater than 1 and less than 10) in scientific notation

• base ten

• variable

• term

• coefficient

This number indicates how many times the base is used as a factor; it is also step 2 in the order of operations.

• radical

• base

• exponent

• evaluate

What is the intersection of the x- and y-axes on a coordinate graph, at the point (0,0) called?

• origin

• y-intercept

• x-intercept

• undefined slope

a number whose decimal form is a terminating or repeating decimal; pi is not one

• rational number

• irrational number

• real number

• whole number

a number with a location on a number line; are either rational or irrational

• integer

• real number

• whole number

• natural number

one of the two equal factors of a number

• LCM

• two squared

• cube root

• square root