Exploring Mathematics Chapters 1-11 Review Flashcards
A scruple was a standard of weight for measuring
drugs
The study of the properties of whole numbers is called
number theory
a polygon with three sides and one right angle
right triangle
The Egyptian knotted rope was used to measure out
a triangle with a right angle
The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.
233
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
counting numbers
the orbit of Haley’s comet is of this shape
ellipse
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
whole numbers
a mirror of this shape will focus sunlight
parabola
A whispering gallery has a shape like
ellipse
a rectangle with four equal sides
square
The length of a mile in feet is
5,280
What is the main reason to have leap days?
So the calendar will match the seasons or so the calendar year will be the same length as the solar year.
a quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel and equal in length
rectangle
1, 3, 5, 7, 9
odd numbers
week
seven days
day
earth rotates on its axis once
The sum of the _______________ of the legs of a right triangle are equal to the _______________ of the hypotenuse.
squares, square
The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.
233
Until 1960, the meter was considered
the distance between two scratch marks
The Egyptian knotted rope was used to measure out
a triangle with a right angle
A pint is a ___ the world around.
pound
year
earth revolves around the sun once
all points are the same distance from the center
circle
month
moon revolves around the earth once
A whispering gallery has a shape like
ellipse
Doubling the length, width, and height of a box gives it a volume
eight times as great
NASA’s Climate Orbiter to Mars failed because …
engineers used two different measures of force
the problem that a computer helped solve was the
the four-color map problem
A common fraction can be changed into a decimal by dividing the numerator by the
denominator
the first part of the name means over or beyond
hyperbola
season
due to the tilt of the earth’s axis, equal to three months
Doubling the length, width, and height of a box gives it a volume
eight times as great
Daniel Fahrenheit set the boiling temperature of water on his thermometer at
212 degrees
The sum of the _______________ of the legs of a right triangle are equal to the _______________ of the hypotenuse.
squares, square
is not a polygon
circle
1/1, ½, ¾, ⅔
rational numbers
-3. -2. -1, 0, +1, +2, +3
integers
a polygon with five sides
pentagon
2, 4, 6, 8, 10
even numbers
In the 1600s, the French mathematician Rene Descartes discovered a way to combine algebra with
Geometry
The square root of two, is an example of
an irrational number
irrational numbers
