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Engineering Mathematics MCQ

1. What is the sum of two supplementary angles?

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Correct Answer: 180°

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2. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year because the sun is farthest:

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Correct Answer: North of Earth's equator

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3. What does the 'span' tag do?

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Correct Answer: Defines a section in a document

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4. What is the solution set of x^2=25?

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Correct Answer: {5, -5}

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5. What is the definition of "solution"?

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Correct Answer: The answer to a problem

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6. What is a solution of an open sentence?

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Correct Answer: A value or values for the variable(s) in an open sentence that make the sentence true.

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7. What is the slide rule?

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Correct Answer: A tool for adding and subtracting integers and fractions

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8. What is an informal name for a translation?

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Correct Answer: Slide

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9. What is the purpose of a slate in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: To record responses during group exercises and informal group assessments

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10. What is a slanted cylinder, cone, prism, or pyramid?

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Correct Answer: A cylinder, cone, prism, or pyramid that is not a right cylinder, right cone, right prism, or right pyramid.

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11. What are skew lines?

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Correct Answer: Lines in space that do not lie in the same plane

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12. What is the size-change factor?

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Correct Answer: Same as scale factor

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13. What is the image of a figure called in a size change transformation?

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Correct Answer: Enlargement (stretch) or reduction (shrink)

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14. What is a situation diagram?

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Correct Answer: A diagram used to organize information in a problem situation in one of the addition/subtraction or multiplication/division use classes

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15. What does it mean to simplify an expression?

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Correct Answer: To rewrite an expression by clearing grouping symbols and combining like terms and constants.

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16. What does it mean to write a fraction in simplest form?

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Correct Answer: To reduce the fraction to its lowest possible terms.

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17. What is the simplest form of a fraction?

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Correct Answer: A fraction that cannot be renamed in simpler form.

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18. To put a fraction in simpler form, what should be done to the numerator and denominator?

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Correct Answer: Divide by a common factor greater than 1.

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19. What is the term for figures that have the same shape, but not necessarily the same size?

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Correct Answer: Similar figures

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20. How many significant digits are in the number 0.0043?

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Correct Answer: 3

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21. What is the Sieve of Eratosthenes?

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Correct Answer: A method for identifying prime numbers

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22. What is the name of the graph shown?

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Correct Answer: Side-by-side bar graph

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23. What is the definition of "side"?

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Correct Answer: One of the line segments that make up a polygon

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24. What does "shrink" mean?

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Correct Answer: Reduce

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25. What is the dividend in 35/5 = 7?

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Correct Answer: 35

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26. What is the distributive property of multiplication?

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Correct Answer: A property relating multiplication to a sum of numbers by distributing a factor over the terms in the sum.

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27. Who is credited with creating the displacement method?

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Correct Answer: Archimedes of Syracuse

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28. What is the definition of a disk?

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Correct Answer: A circle and its interior region

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29. How many cubic units will the box below eventually hold?

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Correct Answer: 108

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30. How many unit squares are in the rectangle below?

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Correct Answer: 40

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31. Which of the following best completes the sentence?

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Correct Answer: 10%

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32. A $10.00 item at "10% off" costs __1 10 less than the usual price.

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Correct Answer: $9.00

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33. What does the word "dimension" mean in geometry?

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Correct Answer: The number of coordinates necessary to locate a point in a geometric space.

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34. How many dimensions does a line have?

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Correct Answer: 1

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35. What is a digital clock?

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Correct Answer: A clock that shows the time with numbers of hours and minutes, usually separated by a colon.

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36. How many symbols are in the base-ten numeration system?

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Correct Answer: 10

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37. What does the word "difference" mean?

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Correct Answer: The result of subtracting one number from another

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38. What is the diameter of a circle or sphere?

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Correct Answer: Twice the radius

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39. What is a diagonal?

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Correct Answer: A line segment joining two nonconsecutive vertices of a polygon

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40. In mathematics, what is a dependent variable defined as?

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Correct Answer: A variable whose value is dependent on the value of at least one other variable in a function.

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41. What is the unit of density?

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Correct Answer: Grams per cubic centimeter

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42. What is the definition of a denominator?

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Correct Answer: The nonzero divisor in a fraction

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43. In a part-whole fraction, what is the denominator?

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Correct Answer: The number of equal parts into which the whole has been divided.

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44. What is the freezing point of a saturated salt solution on the Fahrenheit scale?

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Correct Answer: 0°F

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45. On a Fahrenheit thermometer, what is the boiling point of water?

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Correct Answer: 212°F

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46. What is the unit interval on Celsius thermometers?

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Correct Answer: °C

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47. Celsius is a unit for what?

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Correct Answer: Measuring temperatures

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48. What is the symbol for degrees?

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Correct Answer: °

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49. Which of the following is NOT a deficient number?

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Correct Answer: 8

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50. How many centimeters are in a decimeter?

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Correct Answer: 10

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51. What is a decimal point?

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Correct Answer: A mark used to separate the ones and tenths places in decimals

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52. What is the decimal point also known as?

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Correct Answer: A dot

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53. What is the value of 4 in 456?

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Correct Answer: 400

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54. What is decimal notation?

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Correct Answer: A way of representing numbers that uses a decimal point

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55. What is a decimal?

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Correct Answer: A number written in standard base-ten notation containing a decimal point, such as 2.54

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56. What does the prefix "deci-" mean?

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Correct Answer: 1 tenth

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57. How many sides does a decagon have?

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Correct Answer: 10

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58. What does the prefix "deca" mean?

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Correct Answer: 10

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59. What does "debit" mean?

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Correct Answer: An amount subtracted from a bank balance; a withdrawal.

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60. What is the definition of data?

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Correct Answer: Information that is gathered by counting, measuring, questioning, or observing.

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61. What is the other name for a cylinder?

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Correct Answer: Circular Cylinder

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62. What is the customary system of measurement in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: U.S. customary system of measurement

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63. What is a 2-dimensional surface that does not lie in a plane called?

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Correct Answer: Curved surface

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64. How many fluid ounces are in a cup?

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Correct Answer: 8

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65. What does the Latin word "cubitum" mean?

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Correct Answer: "elbow"

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66. What is a cubic unit?

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Correct Answer: A unit of measure for volume or capacity

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67. What is the volume of a cube with 1-cm edges?

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Correct Answer: 1 cm3

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68. What is the cube of a number?

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Correct Answer: The product of a number used as a factor three times.

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69. How many faces does a cube have?

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Correct Answer: 6

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70. What is a cross section?

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Correct Answer: A shape formed by the intersection of a plane and a geometric solid.

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71. What are the cross products of a proportion?

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Correct Answer: The two products of the numerator of each fraction and the denominator of the other fraction in a proportion.

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72. What is the process of rewriting a proportion by calculating cross products called?

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Correct Answer: Cross multiplication

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73. What is the definition of "credit?"

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Correct Answer: An amount added to an account balance

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74. The cover-up method is used to find a solution of which type of sentence?

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Correct Answer: Open sentence

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75. What is the difference between 87 and 49 using the counting-up subtraction algorithm?

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Correct Answer: 38

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76. What is the set of counting numbers?

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Correct Answer: {1, 2, 3, 4, . . .}

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77. What is the definition of counterclockwise rotation?

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Correct Answer: A turn to the left

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78. What are corresponding vertices?

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Correct Answer: Vertices in the same relative position in similar or congruent figures.

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79. What is the definition of corresponding sides?

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Correct Answer: Sides in the same relative position in similar or congruent figures.

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80. What is the name for two angles that have the same relative position?

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Correct Answer: Corresponding angles

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81. Any two corresponding angles in a pair are congruent, what can be concluded?

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Correct Answer: The two lines are parallel.

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82. What are corresponding angles?

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Correct Answer: Angles in the same relative position in similar or congruent figures

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83. What is another word for "corner"?

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Correct Answer: Vertex

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84. How many number lines are used to form a rectangular coordinate grid?

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Correct Answer: 2

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85. What does a coordinate do?

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Correct Answer: Locates a point

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86. What is a convex polygon?

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Correct Answer: A polygon on which no two points can be connected with a line segment that passes outside the polygon.

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87. What is a conversion factor?

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Correct Answer: A fixed relationship that can be used to convert measurements within or between systems of measurement.

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88. What does a contour map use to indicate areas having a particular feature?

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Correct Answer: Contour lines

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89. How many dimension does a plane figure have?

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Correct Answer: 2

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90. In which section can you find information about constants?

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Correct Answer: 17.2.2

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91. In "x + 3 = y", what is considered a constant?

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Correct Answer: 3

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92. What are the vertices of consecutive angles in a polygon called?

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Correct Answer: Consecutive vertices

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93. What does "consecutive vertices" mean in geometry?

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Correct Answer: The vertices of consecutive angles in a polygon.

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94. What are consecutive sides?

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Correct Answer: Two sides of a polygon with a common vertex.

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95. What are two angles in a polygon with a common side called?

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Correct Answer: Consecutive angles

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96. What does consecutive mean?

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Correct Answer: Following one after another in an uninterrupted order

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97. What is the definition of congruent figures?

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Correct Answer: Figures having the same size and shape

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98. What is the vertex of a cone called?

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Correct Answer: Apex

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99. What is the name for circles that have the same center but radii of different lengths?

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Correct Answer: Concentric circles

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100. Which of the following is not a property of a concave polygon?

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Correct Answer: All interior angles have measures greater than 180°

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101. What is a compound unit?

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Correct Answer: A quotient or product of units

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102. Which of the following is not a composite number?

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Correct Answer: 1

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103. What is the sum of complementary angles?

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Correct Answer: 90°

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104. What is the complement of 4?

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Correct Answer: 6

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105. What is a compass rose?

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Correct Answer: A map direction symbol

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106. What is a compass-and-straightedge construction?

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Correct Answer: A drawing of a geometric figure made using only a compass and a straightedge with no measurement allowed.

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107. What is a compass used to draw?

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Correct Answer: Circles and arcs

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108. What is a compass used for?

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Correct Answer: A tool used to draw circles and arcs and copy line segments.

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109. What does a comparison story lead to?

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Correct Answer: Addition or subtraction

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110. What is the name for a diagram used to model situations in which two quantities are compared by addition or subtraction?

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Correct Answer: Comparison diagram

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111. Is division commutative?

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Correct Answer: No

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112. What is the commutative property of multiplication?

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Correct Answer: A property of multiplication that two numbers can be multiplied in either order without changing the product

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113. Is the commutative property true for subtraction?

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Correct Answer: No

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114. What is a common fraction?

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Correct Answer: A fraction in which the numerator and the nonzero denominator are both integers

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115. What is a common factor?

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Correct Answer: A factor of each of two or more counting numbers

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116. What is the common denominator of the fractions 1/2 and 2/3?

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Correct Answer: 6

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117. What does it mean to "combine like terms"?

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Correct Answer: To rewrite the sum or difference of like terms as a single term.

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118. What is column division?

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Correct Answer: A division algorithm in which vertical lines are drawn between the digits of the dividend

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119. In column addition, what is done with the digits in each place value column?

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Correct Answer: They are added separately

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120. What is a column?

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Correct Answer: A vertical arrangement of objects or numbers in an array or a table.

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121. What is the coefficient in 3c + 8d?

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Correct Answer: 3 and 8

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122. What does a coefficient represent in an expression?

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Correct Answer: The number or constant factor in a variable term

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123. What is the meaning of "clockwise rotation"?

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Correct Answer: The direction in which the hands move on a typical analog clock; a turn to the right.

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124. What is the Class Data Pad used for in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: To store and recall data collected throughout the year.

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