unit 6 vocabulary

Question 1

-coefficient:

Answer 1

a number that is multiplied by a variable(s)

Question 2

-complementary angles:

Answer 2

two angles whose degree measures have a sum of 90

Question 3

-constant:

Answer 3

a fixed value that does not appear with a variable(s)

Question 4

-equation:

Answer 4

a mathematical statement composed of algebraic and/or numeric
expressions set equal to each other

Question 5

-exponent:

Answer 5

in the expression xy

, x is called the base and y is called the

exponent. The exponent determines the number of times the base is multiplied
by itself

Question 6

-expression:

Answer 6

a mathematical phrase, with no equal sign or inequality symbol,
that may contain a number(s), a variable(s), and/or an operator(s)

Question 7

-order of operations:

Answer 7

the rules of which calculations are preformed first when

simplifying an expression

Question 8

-prime factorization:

Answer 8

the process of decomposing a composite number as a

unique product of prime factors

Question 9

-rational numbers:

Answer 9

the set of numbers that can be expressed as a fraction !
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,
where a and b are integers and b ≠ 0. The set of rational numbers is denoted
by the symbol Q.

Question 10

-solution set:

Answer 10

a set of all values of the variable(s) that satisfy the equation

Question 11

-supplementary angles:

Answer 11

two angles whose degree measures have a sum of

180o

Question 12

-variable:

Answer 12

a letter or symbol that represents a number