Chapter 2 Flashcards
Prime
When you only multiply it by one, and itself.
Composite
Numbers that have more than 2 factors.
Prime factorization
A way to express a composite number.
Power
Are numbers expressed using exponents.
Cubed
A number raised to the 3rd power.
Base
Is the big number that is used as a factor.
Squared
A number raised to the 2nd power.
Exponent
In power, the number of times the base is used as a factor.
Distributive Property
To multiply a sum by a number, you can multiply each addend by the same number of equal groups as the second number.
Powers of 10
It is the result of only using 10 as a factor.
Product
The product is the answer to a multiplication problem.
Factor
It means to express a number as the product of its factor.
Compatible numbers
Numbers in a problem that are easy to work with mentally.