Engineering Mathematics MCQ

1. What is the meaning of "tally"?

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Correct Answer: To keep a record of a count, commonly by making a mark for each item as it is counted.

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2. What is the definition of symmetry?

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Correct Answer: The balanced distribution of points over a line or around a point in a symmetric figure

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3. What is the surface area?

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Correct Answer: The area of the surface of a 3-dimensional figure.

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4. What is the surface of a 3-dimensional object?

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Correct Answer: The boundary of a 3-dimensional object

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5. What clears the short-term memory in a calculator?

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Correct Answer: Clear key

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6. What is short-term memory used for?

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Correct Answer: Memory in a calculator used to store values for immediate calculation.

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7. What is the definition of "set"?

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Correct Answer: A collection or group of objects, numbers, or other items.

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8. There are how many semiregular tessellations?

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Correct Answer: 8

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9. What is a semicircle?

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Correct Answer: Half of a circle

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10. What is another name for a sector?

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Correct Answer: A wedge

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11. How many seconds are in a minute?

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Correct Answer: 60

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12. What is the expanded notation for 4.3 ∗ 106 ?

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Correct Answer: 4300000

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13. What is a scalene triangle?

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Correct Answer: A triangle with sides of three different lengths

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14. What does the word "scale" mean in the context of a scale model?

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Correct Answer: Scale refers to the proportion that the model bears to the actual object.

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15. Which of the following is an example of a scale model?

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Correct Answer: Many model trains or airplanes

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16. What is the ratio of lengths on an image and corresponding lengths on a preimage in a size change called?

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Correct Answer: Scale factor

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17. What is a scale drawing?

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Correct Answer: A drawing of an object in which all parts are drawn to the same scale as the object.

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18. What is the scale of the number line on the right side of the ruler?

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Correct Answer: 1/16 inch

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19. What is the scale of a map?

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Correct Answer: Same as map scale.

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20. What is the meaning of fulcrum?

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Correct Answer: The point or place around which a lever pivots.

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21. What is a frequency table?

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Correct Answer: A table in which data are tallied and organized, often as a first step toward making a frequency graph.

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22. What is a frequency graph?

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Correct Answer: A graph showing how often each value occurs in a data set.

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23. What is the definition of frequency?

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Correct Answer: The number of times a value occurs in a set of data.

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24. Which of the following best describes a Frames and Arrows diagram?

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Correct Answer: A diagram consisting of frames connected by arrows used to represent number sequences.

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25. What is a Frames and Arrows diagram used to represent?

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Correct Answer: Number sequences

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26. What is a fraction?

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Correct Answer: A fraction is a part of a whole.

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27. What is a fraction stick?

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Correct Answer: A diagram used to represent simple fractions

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28. What is a fraction that includes a unit in both the numerator and denominator?

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Correct Answer: A fraction that satisfies the previous definition and includes a unit in both the numerator and denominator.

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29. A fraction is a number in the form __.

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Correct Answer: A/b

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30. Which of the following is not a formula?

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Correct Answer: D = r + t

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31. How many feet are in a yard?

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Correct Answer: 3

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32. About how many milliliters are in a fluid ounce?

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Correct Answer: 29.573730 milliliters

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33. What is a fluid ounce equal to?

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Correct Answer: 1/16 of a pint

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34. What is a flowchart?

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Correct Answer: A diagram that shows a series of steps to complete a task.

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35. What is the informal name for a reflection transformation?

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Correct Answer: Flip

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36. What is another name for a flip?

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Correct Answer: Reflection

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37. A _______ is a surface contained entirely in one plane.

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Correct Answer: Flat surface

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38. What is the base-10 block consisting of one hundred 1-cm cubes called?

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Correct Answer: Flat

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39. What is a flat in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: The base-10 block consisting of one hundred 1-cm cubes

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40. What are figurate numbers?

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Correct Answer: Numbers that can be illustrated by specific geometric patterns.

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41. Which of the following are not figurate numbers?

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Correct Answer: Prime numbers

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42. What is an outcome that satisfies the conditions of an event of interest called?

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Correct Answer: Favorable outcome

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43. How long is a fathom?

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Correct Answer: 6 feet

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44. What is the same unit of length as a fathom?

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Correct Answer: Arm span

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45. What is a false number sentence?

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Correct Answer: A number sentence that is not true.

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46. What does "fair game" mean?

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Correct Answer: A game in which every player has the same chance of winning

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47. If a die is fair, then each side has a _____ chance of landing up.

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Correct Answer: Equal

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48. What is a fair coin?

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Correct Answer: A coin that is free from bias.

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49. What is the freezing point of water on the Fahrenheit scale?

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Correct Answer: 32°

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50. What does a facts table show?

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Correct Answer: A chart showing arithmetic facts.

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51. What does the symbol ! mean in mathematics?

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Correct Answer: Factorial

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52. What is the prime factorization of a counting number?

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Correct Answer: A way to get the prime factorization of a counting number

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53. What is a factor string?

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Correct Answer: A counting number written as a product of two or more of its counting-number factors other than 1.

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54. What is the length of the factor string 2*3*4?

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Correct Answer: 3

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55. What is a factor rainbow?

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Correct Answer: A way to show factor pairs in a list of all the factors of a number

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56. What is a factor pair?

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Correct Answer: Two factors of a counting number n whose product is n.

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57. What is a factor of a counting number n?

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Correct Answer: A counting number whose product with some other counting number equals n.

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58. What is the definition of a factor in mathematics?

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Correct Answer: A number that is multiplied by another number to produce a given number

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59. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a Fact Triangle?

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Correct Answer: The two 1-digit numbers and their sum or product appear in the corners of each triangle.

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60. How many numbers appear in each corner of the Fact Triangle?

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Correct Answer: Three

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61. What is the definition of "fact power"?

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Correct Answer: The ability to automatically recall basic arithmetic facts.

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62. What is a fact?

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Correct Answer: A fact is a statement that can be verified or proven to be true.

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63. What is the Same as fact power?

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Correct Answer: Fact habits

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64. What is a fact family?

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Correct Answer: A set of related arithmetic facts linking two inverse operations.

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65. What makes it easier to solve problems such as 50 + 80 = ?

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Correct Answer: Knowing the addition fact 5 + 8 = 13

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66. In Everyday Mathematics, what is a face?

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Correct Answer: A flat surface on a 3-dimensional figure.

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67. What are extended facts?

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Correct Answer: Variations of basic arithmetic that involve multiples of 10, 100, and so on.

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68. Which of the following is an extended fact?

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Correct Answer: 30 + 70 = 100

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69. What does an expression NOT contain?

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Correct Answer: Relation symbols

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70. What is the expression in math?

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Correct Answer: A mathematical phrase made up of numbers, variables, operation symbols, and/or grouping symbols.

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71. What is exponential notation?

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Correct Answer: A way of representing repeated multiplication by the same factor

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72. What is the base in the exponential notation 23?

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Correct Answer: 2

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73. What does an exponent tell you?

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Correct Answer: How many times the base is used as a factor

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74. What is the value of 5^3?

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Correct Answer: 125

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75. What is expanded notation?

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Correct Answer: A way of writing a number as the sum of the values of each digit.

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76. If the probability of an event is 0, the event is...?

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Correct Answer: Impossible

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77. The probability of getting 2 HEADS when flipping two coins is:

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Correct Answer: 1/2

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78. What is an even number?

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Correct Answer: A number that is divisible by 2

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79. What does it mean to "evaluate" a numerical expression?

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Correct Answer: To carry out the operations in a numerical expression to find a single value for the expression.

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80. What is it called when you find the value of one variable in a formula when the values of the other variables are known?

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Correct Answer: Evaluating a formula

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81. Which of the following is NOT a type of subtraction algorithm?

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Correct Answer: European subtraction

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82. What is the European subtraction algorithm?

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Correct Answer: A subtraction algorithm in which the subtrahend is increased when regrouping is necessary.

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83. What does the word "estimate" mean?

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Correct Answer: An answer close to, or approximating, an exact answer.

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84. What is an equivalent ratio?

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Correct Answer: A ratio that makes the same comparison

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85. What term describes rates that make the same comparison?

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Correct Answer: Equivalent rates

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86. What is an example of an equivalent name for 8?

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Correct Answer: 12 - 4

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87. What are equivalent fractions?

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Correct Answer: Fractions with different denominators that name the same number

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88. What is an equivalent equation?

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Correct Answer: Equations with the same solution

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89. What does "equivalent" mean?

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Correct Answer: Equal in value but possibly in a different form

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90. What is an equilateral triangle?

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Correct Answer: A triangle with all three sides equal in length

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91. What is an equilateral polygon?

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Correct Answer: A polygon in which all sides are the same length.

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92. What does equidistant mean?

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Correct Answer: A series of marks separated by a constant space

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93. What is the equator?

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Correct Answer: An imaginary circle around Earth halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole

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94. What is an equation?

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Correct Answer: A number sentence that contains an equal sign

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95. If all the possible outcomes of a chance experiment are equally likely, then the probability of an event is equal to?

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Correct Answer: The number of favorable outcomes divided by the total number of possible outcomes

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96. What is an equal-sharing story?

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Correct Answer: A number story in which a quantity is shared equally.

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97. What does equal parts mean?

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Correct Answer: Equivalent parts of a whole

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98. What does it mean when a whole is divided into equal parts?

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Correct Answer: Each part is 1/4 of the pizza and is equal in size to the other 3 parts

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99. What does 3 [6s] mean in equal-groups notation?

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Correct Answer: 3 groups with 6 in each group.

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100. What does n [bs] mean in equal-groups notation?

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Correct Answer: N groups with b in each group

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101. What are sets with the same number of elements called?

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Correct Answer: Equal groups

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102. What is an equal-grouping story?

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Correct Answer: A number story in which a quantity is divided into equal groups

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103. What does the word "equal" mean?

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Correct Answer: Same as equivalent

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104. What is the meaning of the word "equivalent"?

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Correct Answer: Equal

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105. What is the definition of enlarge?

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Correct Answer: To increase the size of an object or a figure without changing its shape.

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106. What is the endpoint of a line segment, ray, or arc?

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Correct Answer: A point at the end of a line segment, ray, or arc.

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107. What does the term "embedded figure" mean?

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Correct Answer: A figure entirely enclosed within another figure

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108. Which of the following is NOT a property of an ellipse?

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Correct Answer: The length of the string is the constant

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109. What is elevation?

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Correct Answer: A height above sea level

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110. What is the Egyptian multiplication algorithm based on?

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Correct Answer: Repeated doubling of one factor

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111. What is Egyptian multiplication?

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Correct Answer: A 4,000-year-old multiplication algorithm based on repeated doubling of one factor

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112. What is the definition of "edge"?

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Correct Answer: A line segment or curve where two surfaces of a geometric solid meet.

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113. What is the double-stem plot?

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Correct Answer: A stem-and-leaf plot in which each stem is split into two parts.

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114. What is the range of eruption durations shown in the plot?

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Correct Answer: 3.5-4.0 minutes

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115. What is the sum of a 1-digit number added to itself called?

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Correct Answer: A doubles fact

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116. What is a dodecahedron?

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Correct Answer: A polyhedron with 12 faces

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117. What is the divisor in 35/7?

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Correct Answer: 7

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118. What is the division symbol for "a divided by b"?

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Correct Answer: __ ab

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119. Which of the following is a common notation for division?

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Correct Answer: A ÷ b, a /b, and __ a b

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120. What is the name for the rule that says division by a fraction is the same as multiplication by the reciprocal of the fraction?

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Correct Answer: Division of Fractions Property

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121. If a number is divisible by another number, what does that mean?

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Correct Answer: The larger number can be divided by the smaller number with no remainder.

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122. Every counting number is divisible by:

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Correct Answer: Itself

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123. What is a divisibility test?

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Correct Answer: A test to see if a divisibility rule applies to a particular number

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124. What is the divisibility rule for determining if a number is divisible by 3?

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Correct Answer: If the sum of the number's digits is divisible by 3, then the number is divisible by 3.

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