CHAPTER 9 VCE GENERAL MATHEMATICS

Question 1

What is BODMAS?

Answer 1

Order of operations - Brackets (B), Power of (O), Division (D), Multiplication (M), Addition (A), Subtraction (S)

Question 2

What are the rules of negative numbers?

Answer 2

Negative x Negative = Positive Answer

Negative divided by Negative = Positive Answer

Positive x Negative = Negative Answer

Negative divided by Positive = Negative Answer

Question 3

What are significant figures?

Answer 3

You forget all the numbers except for the significant figure/s that your rounding.

Eg: 32 654 = 30000 due to the next number being a two making it 30 as 30 is closer to 32 than 40