Vocab Flashcards
Has three equal factors
Cube root
Ok to have a negative radical for cube roots
Perfect cubes
Two equal factors opposite from squaring
Can’t have negative under radical sign
Square root
1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64…
Perfect squares
Positive exponent move the decimal to the right
Makes a big number
Negative exponent move the decimal to the left
Makes a small number
Scientific notation
Can be expressed as a ratio (fraction)
Irrational numbers
Decimal form stops
Terminating decimal
A number, a variable or a product of a number and one or more variables
Monomial
Numbers that can be written as a fraction or decimal
Rational numbers
Tells us how many times the bases used
Exponent
fraction form has nines for denominators
Simplify or reduce
Repeating decimal
A product of repeating factors
Power
The repeated factor
Base
All numbers rational or irrational
Real numbers