Engineering Mathematics MCQ

What is a term in an algebraic expression?

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Correct Answer: A number or a product of a number and one or more variables

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How is temperature measured?

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Correct Answer: On a standardized scale such as degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit

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What are tangent circles?

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Correct Answer: Two circles with exactly one point in common.

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What is the summer solstice?

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Correct Answer: The longest day of the year

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What is the result of adding two or more numbers called?

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Correct Answer: Sum

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What is the subtrahend?

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Correct Answer: The number being taken away in a subtraction problem

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What does it mean to substitute in an expression or formula?

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Correct Answer: To replace variables with numbers in an expression or formula.

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What is the name of the program that the following activity is a part of?

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Correct Answer: Everyday Mathematics

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What does the word "stretch" mean?

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Correct Answer: Enlarge

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A straightedge is which of the following?

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Correct Answer: A tool used to draw line segments

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What is a straight angle?

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Correct Answer: A 180° angle.

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In a step graph, what do the horizontal values represent?

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Correct Answer: Time

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What is a "leaf" in a stem-and-leaf plot?

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Correct Answer: A digit with a small place value

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A standard unit is defined by ____________.

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Correct Answer: A recognized authority, such as a government or a standards organization

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What is standard notation?

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Correct Answer: A way of representing whole numbers, integers, and decimals using base-ten place-value numeration.

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A model of a square unit is a square with each side a related unit of _____.

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Correct Answer: Length

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What is the unit used to measure area?

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Correct Answer: Square unit

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What is the square of a number n?

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Correct Answer: The product of n and itself

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What is a square number?

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Correct Answer: A figurate number that is the product of a counting number and itself

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What is another name for a square corner?

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Correct Answer: Right angle

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What is a square array?

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Correct Answer: A rectangular array with the same number of rows as columns.

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What is a spreadsheet?

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Correct Answer: A computer application in which numerical information is arranged in cells in a grid.

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What is the set of all points in space that are an equal distance from a fixed point called?

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Correct Answer: Sphere

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What is average speed?

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Correct Answer: A rate that compares distance traveled with the time taken to travel that distance.

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What is a special case in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: A specific example of a general pattern

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What is the tag used to create a drop-down list?

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Correct Answer: Select

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What is the distance around a circle called?

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Correct Answer: Circumference

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What is the circumference of a sphere?

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Correct Answer: The circumference of a circle on the sphere with the same center as the sphere.

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What is a circle graph also called?

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Correct Answer: Pie graph

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What is the set of all points in a plane that are equally distant from a fixed point called?

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Correct Answer: Circle

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What is the diameter of a circle?

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Correct Answer: Twice the radius

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What is a change-to-more story?

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Correct Answer: A number story about a change situation in which the ending quantity is more than the starting quantity.

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What is a change-to-less story?

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Correct Answer: A number story about a change situation in which the ending quantity is less than the starting quantity.

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What is a change diagram used to model?

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Correct Answer: Situations in which quantities are either increased or decreased by addition or subtraction.

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What does the word "chance" mean?

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Correct Answer: The possibility that an outcome will occur in an uncertain event.

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What is the equivalent of a centimeter in the metric system?

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Correct Answer: 10 millimeters

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What does the prefix "centi" mean?

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Correct Answer: 1 hundredth

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What is the center of a sphere called?

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Correct Answer: The point equally distant from all points on a sphere.

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What is the center of a circle called?

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Correct Answer: The point in the plane of a circle equally distant from all points on the circle.

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How many cents are in a dollar?

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Correct Answer: 100

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What is a census?

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Correct Answer: An official count of population and the recording of other demographic data such as age, gender, income, and education.

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On which temperature scale does pure water at sea level freezes at 0° and boils at 100°?

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Correct Answer: Celsius

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What is the address of a cell in a spreadsheet?

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Correct Answer: The column letter followed by the row number

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What is a cartographer?

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Correct Answer: A person who makes maps

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What is the unit of capacity?

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Correct Answer: Quarts, gallons, cups, or liters

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How much energy is required to raise the temperature of 1 liter of water 1° Celsius?

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Correct Answer: 1 calorie

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What does it mean to calibrate something?

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Correct Answer: To test and adjust the accuracy of a measuring tool

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What is a broken-line graph?

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Correct Answer: Same as line graph

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What is the name of the symbols used to group things together?

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Correct Answer: Grouping symbols

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What is the name for symbols "[ ]" used to group things together?

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Correct Answer: Brackets

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What is the meaning of "braces"?

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Correct Answer: Grouping symbols

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What is another name for grouping symbols?

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Correct Answer: Braces

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What is the name of theplot that displays the spread of a data set using 5 landmarks?

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Correct Answer: Box-and-whiskers plot

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What does a bisector do?

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Correct Answer: Divides a segment, an angle, or a figure into two parts of equal measure

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What does it mean to bisect?

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Correct Answer: To divide a segment, angle, or figure into two parts of equal measure

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What is 1 billion by U.S. custom?

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Correct Answer: 1,000,000,000

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How many zeros are in 1 billion by British custom?

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Correct Answer: 12

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What is the measurement of a big cube?

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Correct Answer: 10-cm by 10-cm by 10-cm

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What is the volume of a big cube?

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Correct Answer: 1000 cm3

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What is a biased sample?

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Correct Answer: A sample that does not fairly represent the total population from which it was selected.

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What does "benchmark" mean?

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Correct Answer: A count or measure that can be used to evaluate the reasonableness of other counts, measures, or estimates.

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What is the definition of baseline data?

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Correct Answer: A set of data used for comparison with subsequent data

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What is base-10 shorthand?

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Correct Answer: A written notation for base-10 blocks.

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Base-10 blocks are used to represent which place value system?

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Correct Answer: Base-10

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What is the name for our number system that uses only the 10 symbols 0-9?

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Correct Answer: Base Ten

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What is the place value of the digit 9 in the number 1,234?

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Correct Answer: 900

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What is the base of a triangle?

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Correct Answer: Any side of a triangle to which an altitude is drawn.

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What is the base of a rectangle?

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Correct Answer: One of the sides of the rectangle.

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What is the face of a pyramid or cone that is opposite its apex called?

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Correct Answer: Base

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What is the base of a prism or cylinder?

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Correct Answer: One of the two parallel and congruent faces that define the shape of a prism or cylinder.

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What is the base of a parallelogram?

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Correct Answer: The side of a parallelogram to which an altitude is drawn

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In which base is the place value system of our usual way of writing numbers?

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Correct Answer: Base 10

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What is the base of a number system?

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Correct Answer: The foundation number for a numeration system.

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What is a number that is raised to a power called?

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Correct Answer: Base

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What does a bar graph represent?

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Correct Answer: Data

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What is a bank draft?

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Correct Answer: A written order for the exchange of money

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What is the definition of a "ballpark estimate?"

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Correct Answer: A rough estimate

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What is the definition of an axis of rotation?

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Correct Answer: A line about which a solid figure rotates.

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What is the plural of "axis"?

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Correct Answer: Axes

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What is the mean of the set found by adding all the numbers and dividing by the number of numbers?

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Correct Answer: Average

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From which language is the word "Equinox" derived?

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Correct Answer: Latin

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What is the meaning of "Equinox"?

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Correct Answer: Equal night

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What is an attribute?

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Correct Answer: A feature of an object or common feature of a set of objects.

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What does AU stand for?

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Correct Answer: Astronomical unit

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What does astronomical unit measure?

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Correct Answer: Distances in space

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What is the Associative Property of Multiplication?

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Correct Answer: The property of multiplication that three numbers can be multiplied in any order without changing the product.

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What is the Associative Property of Addition?

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Correct Answer: A property of addition that three numbers can be added in any order without changing the sum.

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Addition is not associative.

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Correct Answer: False

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An array is a(n) _______

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Correct Answer: Arrangement of objects in a regular pattern

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What is the meaning of arm span?

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Correct Answer: Same as fathom

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What is the "arm span" equal to?

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Correct Answer: Fathom

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How many arithmetic facts are there in total?

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Correct Answer: 400

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How many multiplication facts are there?

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Correct Answer: 100

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What does the area model represent in multiplication?

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Correct Answer: The product

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What is the formula for finding the area of a circle?

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Correct Answer: Area = πr^2

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How is area commonly measured?

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Correct Answer: In square units

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What is the name for a part of a circle between and including two endpoints on the circle?

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Correct Answer: Arc of a circle

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What does the symbol "≈" mean?

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Correct Answer: An estimate or approximation to an exact value

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What is the apex?

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Correct Answer: The vertex opposite the base

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What is the study of human body sizes and proportions called?

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Correct Answer: Anthropometry

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What is the name of the endpoint of two rays or line segments that form an angle?

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Correct Answer: Vertex

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What is the rotation image of one side of an angle through a number of degrees called?

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Correct Answer: The other side

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What does the suffix -angle mean?

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Correct Answer: Angle

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What is an analog clock?

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Correct Answer: A clock that shows the time by the positions of the hour and minute hands.

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What is the same as altitude?

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Correct Answer: Distance above sea level

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What does altitude mean in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: Same as height of a figure

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What is an algorithm?

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Correct Answer: A set of step-by-step instructions for doing something, such as carrying out a computation or solving a problem.

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What is the algebraic order of operations?

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Correct Answer: Same as order of operations

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What is an algebraic expression?

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Correct Answer: An expression that contains a variable.

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What is the definition of adjacent sides?

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Correct Answer: Same as consecutive sides

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What does adjacent mean?

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Correct Answer: Sides next to each other

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What is the definition of adjacent angles?

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Correct Answer: Two angles with a common side and vertex that do not otherwise overlap.

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What is the address box?

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Correct Answer: A place where the address of a spreadsheet cell is shown when the cell is selected

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What is a letter-number pair used to locate a spreadsheet cell called?

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Correct Answer: Address

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What do you call two numbers whose sum is 0?

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Correct Answer: Additive inverses

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Addition and subtraction belongs to which use class?

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Correct Answer: Everyday Mathematics

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Which of the following is NOT an addition/subtraction use class?

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Correct Answer: Multiplication

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What is the sum of 9 and 7?

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Correct Answer: 16

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What does addend mean?

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Correct Answer: Any one of a set of numbers that are added.

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Which of the following is an acute angle?

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Correct Answer: 45 °

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What is an acute angle?

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Correct Answer: An angle with a measure less than 90 °

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How many square feet are in an acre?

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Correct Answer: 43560

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Which of the following is not a correct meaning of the word "accurate"?

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Correct Answer: As correct as possible according to an accepted standard.

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What is an account balance?

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Correct Answer: An amount of money that you have or that you owe.

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What is an abundant number?

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Correct Answer: A counting number whose proper factors add to a number greater than itself.

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The absolute value of a negative number is...?

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Correct Answer: The opposite of the number

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What is the symbol for the absolute value of a number?

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Correct Answer: |n|

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