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Exploring Mathematics Final Review Flashcards

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Video images can be compressed by

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transmitting only those pixels that are different from the previous one

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a quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel and equal in length

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rectangle

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3
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A whispering gallery has a shape like

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ellipse

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4
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Base 10 uses the digits 0 through

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9

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5
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invented logarithms

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John Napier

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2, 4, 6, 8, 10

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even numbers

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irrational numbers

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8
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The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.

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233

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In 1861, James Clerk Maxwell made a color photograph using

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the three colors of red, green, and blue

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0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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whole numbers

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11
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year

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earth revolves around the sun once

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A pint is a ___ the world around.

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pound

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What is the main reason to have leap days?

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So the calendar will match the seasons or so the calendar year will be the same length as the solar year.

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the first part of the name means over or beyond

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hyperbola

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15
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a polygon with five sides

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pentagon

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16
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A scruple was a standard of weight for measuring

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drugs

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17
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built a calculator to help his father, a tax collector

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Blaise Pascal

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wrote the first computer program

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August Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace

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19
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The study of the properties of whole numbers is called

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number theory

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20
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The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.

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233

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The sum of the _______________ of the legs of a right triangle are equal to the _______________ of the hypotenuse.

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squares, square

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22
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the problem that a computer helped solve was the

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the four-color map problem

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23
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day

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earth rotates on its axis once

24
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NASA’s Climate Orbiter to Mars failed because …

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engineers used two different measures of force

25
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The Egyptian knotted rope was used to measure out

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a triangle with a right angle

26
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all points are the same distance from the center

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circle

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a rectangle with four equal sides

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square

28
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Moore’s law states that computers double in power every 18

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months

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The Egyptian knotted rope was used to measure out

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a triangle with a right angle

30
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a mirror of this shape will focus sunlight

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parabola

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The sum of the _______________ of the legs of a right triangle are equal to the _______________ of the hypotenuse.

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squares, square

32
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1/1, ½, ¾, ⅔

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rational numbers

33
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spent six years calculating the orbit of Mars

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Johannes Kepler

34
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-3. -2. -1, 0, +1, +2, +3

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integers

35
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Doubling the length, width, and height of a box gives it a volume

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eight times as great

36
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Doubling the length, width, and height of a box gives it a volume

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eight times as great

37
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season

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due to the tilt of the earth’s axis, equal to three months

38
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is not a polygon

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circle

39
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Until 1960, the meter was considered

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the distance between two scratch marks

40
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The square root of two, is an example of

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an irrational number

41
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Daniel Fahrenheit set the boiling temperature of water on his thermometer at

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212 degrees

42
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month

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moon revolves around the earth once

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1, 3, 5, 7, 9

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odd numbers

44
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a polygon with three sides and one right angle

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right triangle

45
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The length of a mile in feet is

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5,280

46
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built the first general purpose calculating machine

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Howard H. Aiken

47
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A computer with components put farther apart will run more slowly because

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electric signals can go no faster than the speed of light

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A common fraction can be changed into a decimal by dividing the numerator by the

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denominator

49
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the orbit of Haley’s comet is of this shape

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ellipse

50
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built a calculator called the Step Reckoner

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Gottfried Leibnitz

51
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A whispering gallery has a shape like

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ellipse

52
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In the 1600s, the French mathematician Rene Descartes discovered a way to combine algebra with

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Geometry

53
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built the difference engine

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Charles Babbage

54
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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counting numbers

55
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invented tabulating machines used in the 1890 census

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Herman Hollerith

56
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The expression log103 = 0.477 is read as “The logarithm of the number __________ in base __________ is __________.”

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three, ten, 0.477

57
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week

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seven days

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