GMA Vocabulary Review

What is the term for the following definition? The total space taken up by a flat (2-D) surface or shape of an object.

• area

• volume

• perimeter

• length

What is the term for the following definition? A sequence in which the difference between each consecutive term is constant. It is a sequence of numbers that can be modeled with a linear function. An arithmetic sequence can be written in recursive form and explicit form.

• arithmetic sequence

• geometric sequence

• harmonic sequence

• fibonacci sequence

What is the term for the following definition? A connection between data values.

• association

• variable

• function

• constant

What is the term for the following definition? A straight line to which, as the distance from the origin gets larger, a curve gets closer and closer to approaching, but generally does not touch. On a graph, the line is often shown as dashed or dotted.

• asymptote

• tangent

• radius

• chord

What is the term for the following definition? A line that divides a graph into two equal halves, thereby creating a mirror-like reflection of either side of the object.

• axis of symmetry

• tangent line

• asymptote

• perpendicular bisector

What is the term for the following definition? A polynomial made up of two terms.

• binomial

• monomial

• trinomial

• quadratic

What is the term for the following definition? Pairs of linked numerical observations. An example would be to list the heights and weights of each player on a football team.

• bivariate data

• univariate data

• categorical data

• ordinal data

Fill in the blank: __________ variables take on values that are names or labels. The color of a ball (e.g., red, green, blue), gender (male or female), year in school (freshmen, sophomore, junior, senior). These are data that cannot be averaged or represented by a scatter plot as they have no numerical meaning.

• categorical

• numerical

• continuous

• ordinal

Fill in the blank: __________ is a relationship between two events where one event is affected by the other.

• causation

• correlation

• coincidence

• association

Fill in the blank: Measures of __________ refer to the summary measures used to describe the most 'typical' value in a set of data. The two most common measures of this are median and mean.

• center

• spread

• variation

• frequency