Chapter 5 Vocab Practice

What is an algebraic expression?

• A symbol that represents one or more numbers

• An expression that contains numbers, operations, and one or more variables

• A term without a variable

• The numerical factor of a term that contains a variable

What is a variable?

• A part of an algebraic expression

• A symbol that represents one or more numbers

• A term without a variable

• An expression with the same value

What is a term in an algebraic expression?

• A symbol that represents one or more numbers

• The numerical factor of a term that contains a variable

• A part of an algebraic expression; a number or variable by itself, or the product of numbers and variables

• A mathematical rule that states the order of numbers in an addition and multiplication problem does not change the final answer

What are coefficients?

• A term without a variable

• The numerical factor of a term that contains a variable

• Expressions with the same value

• A mathematical rule that states the order of numbers in an addition and multiplication problem does not change the final answer

What is a constant?

• A term without a variable

• A symbol that represents one or more numbers

• An expression that contains numbers, operations, and one or more variables

• A part of an algebraic expression

What are equivalent expressions?

• Expressions with the same value

• A symbol that represents one or more numbers

• A term without a variable

• The numerical factor of a term that contains a variable

What does factoring an expression involve?

• Using the order of operations to find the value of a numerical expression

• Writing a numerical expression or algebraic expression as a product of factors

• Describing how to distribute multiplication over addition and subtraction

• A mathematical rule that states the order of numbers in an addition and multiplication problem does not change the final answer

What does it mean to evaluate an expression?

• Using the order of operations to find the value of a numerical expression

• Writing a numerical expression or algebraic expression as a product of factors

• Describing how to distribute multiplication over addition and subtraction

• A mathematical rule that states the order of numbers in an addition and multiplication problem does not change the final answer

What is the distributive property?

• A mathematical rule that states the order of numbers in an addition and multiplication problem does not change the final answer

• Describes how to distribute multiplication over addition and subtraction

• Using the order of operations to find the value of a numerical expression

• Writing a numerical expression or algebraic expression as a product of factors

What is the associative property?

• A mathematical rule that states the order of numbers in an addition and multiplication problem does not change the final answer

• Describes how to distribute multiplication over addition and subtraction

• A mathematical rule that states that the order in which you group numbers when adding or multiplying them does not change the final answer

• Using the order of operations to find the value of a numerical expression