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Engineering Mathematics MCQ

1. What is the synonym of the word "tally"?

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Correct Answer: Count

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2. What does the word "scale" mean?

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Correct Answer: The relative size of something.

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3. What is a sample?

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Correct Answer: A part of a population intended to represent the whole population

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4. What is the same-change rule for subtraction?

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Correct Answer: A subtraction algorithm in which the same number is added to or subtracted from both numbers.

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5. What is rubber-sheet geometry?

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Correct Answer: Same as topology

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6. What does "row" mean in spreadsheet terms?

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Correct Answer: A horizontal section of cells in a spreadsheet.

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7. What does it mean to "round down"?

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Correct Answer: To approximate smaller than the actual value

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8. What is a figure called that has rotation symmetry?

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Correct Answer: Rotation image of itself

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9. How are Roman Numerals used?

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Correct Answer: To represent numbers in an ancient Roman system of numeration

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10. What are Roman numerals?

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Correct Answer: Letters used to represent numbers in an ancient Roman system of numeration

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11. What is a right prism?

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Correct Answer: A prism whose bases are perpendicular to all of the edges that connect the two bases.

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12. What is a right cylinder?

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Correct Answer: A cylinder whose bases are perpendicular to the line segment joining the centers of the bases

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13. What is a right angle?

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Correct Answer: A 90° angle.

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14. What is another name for a rhombus?

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Correct Answer: Diamond

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15. What is the plural of rhombus?

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Correct Answer: Rhombuses or rhombi

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16. What is the meaning of the word "revolve"?

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Correct Answer: To rotate or cause to rotate around a central point

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17. What does "revolution" mean?

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Correct Answer: Movement on a circle or other closed curve around some point

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18. What is a repeating decimal?

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Correct Answer: A decimal in which one digit or a group of digits is repeated without end.

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19. What is the definition of "remainder"?

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Correct Answer: An amount left over when one number is divided by another number.

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20. What is a relation symbol?

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Correct Answer: A symbol used to express a relationship between two quantities

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21. Which of the following is not a regular tessellation?

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Correct Answer: A tessellation of one regular polygon

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22. Lines of longitude are also called what?

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Correct Answer: Meridians

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23. What are lines of latitude also called?

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Correct Answer: Parallels

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24. On a globe, latitude lines are also known as what?

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Correct Answer: Circles

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25. What is a line segment?

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Correct Answer: A part of a line between and including two points called endpoints of the segment.

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26. A line plot is a sketch of data in which check marks, Xs, or other symbols above a labeled line show what?

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Correct Answer: The frequency of each value.

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27. What is a line of symmetry?

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Correct Answer: A line that divides a figure into two parts that are reflection images of each other.

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28. What is the line of reflection?

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Correct Answer: The line halfway between a figure and its reflection image in a plane.

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29. What is a line graph?

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Correct Answer: A graph in which data points are connected by line segments.

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30. In Euclidean geometry, what is an undefined term for line?

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Correct Answer: It is an undefined term

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31. What is a line?

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Correct Answer: A 1-dimensional straight path that extends forever in opposite directions.

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32. What are like terms?

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Correct Answer: Terms that contain the same variable(s) raised to the same power(s)

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33. What is the name for fractions with equal denominators?

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Correct Answer: Like fractions

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34. What is a letter-number pair?

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Correct Answer: An ordered pair in which one of the coordinates is a letter

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35. What is the longer dimension of a rectangle called?

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Correct Answer: Length

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36. What is the length of a factor string?

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Correct Answer: The number of factors in a factor string.

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37. What is the distance between two points on a 1-dimensional figure called?

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Correct Answer: Length

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38. Which of the following is not a side of a right triangle?

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Correct Answer: Hypotenuse

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39. What is left-to-right subtraction?

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Correct Answer: A subtraction algorithm that works from the left decimal place to the right in several steps.

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40. What is the least common multiple of 6 and 8?

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Correct Answer: 24

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41. What is the least common denominator of 1⁄2, 4⁄5, and 3⁄8?

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Correct Answer: 40

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42. What is the name of the algorithm for multiplying multidigit numbers?

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Correct Answer: Lattice multiplication

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43. A degree measure locating a place on Earth north or south of the equator is what?

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Correct Answer: Latitude

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44. What is a landmark in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: A notable feature of a data set.

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45. What does the word "Label" mean in the context of mathematics?

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Correct Answer: A descriptive word or phrase used to put a number or numbers in context.

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46. In Everyday Mathematics, a kite cannot have ____.

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Correct Answer: All sides with equal length

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47. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a kite?

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Correct Answer: The four sides cannot all have equal length.

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48. How many kilometers are in a mile?

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Correct Answer: 0.62

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49. How many meters are in a kilometer?

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Correct Answer: 1,000

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50. About how many pounds is a kilogram?

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Correct Answer: 2.2

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51. How many grams are in a kilogram?

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Correct Answer: 1,000

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52. What does the prefix "kilo-" mean?

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Correct Answer: 1 thousand

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53. What is the key sequence?

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Correct Answer: The order in which calculator keys are pressed to perform a calculation.

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54. What does it mean to "juxtapose" in an expression?

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Correct Answer: To place factors side by side without a multiplication symbol

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55. What does it mean when we say "5n" in an expression?

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Correct Answer: 5 times n

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56. Is an isosceles triangle a triangle with at least two sides of different lengths?

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Correct Answer: No

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57. What is an isosceles trapezoid?

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Correct Answer: A trapezoid whose nonparallel sides are the same length

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58. What is an isometry transformation?

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Correct Answer: A transformation in which the preimage and image are congruent

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59. Which of the following is not an irrational number?

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Correct Answer: 1.10100100010000

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60. What does it mean when a company is "in the red"?

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Correct Answer: Having a negative account balance; owing more money than is available.

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61. What does it mean to be "in the black"?

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Correct Answer: Having a positive account balance; having more money than is owed.

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62. What is the interval between 0 and 1 on a number line called?

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Correct Answer: The unit interval

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63. What is the set of all numbers between two numbers a and b called?

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Correct Answer: Interval

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64. What does it mean when two lines intersect?

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Correct Answer: To share a common point or points.

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65. What does interquartile range mean?

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Correct Answer: The length of the interval between the lower and upper quartiles in a data set

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66. What does it mean to interpolate?

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Correct Answer: Estimate an unknown value of a function between known values.

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67. Which of the following is NOT true about the interior of a figure?

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Correct Answer: The interior is usually not considered to be part of the figure.

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68. What is the interior of a figure?

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Correct Answer: The set of all points in a plane or 3-dimensional space bounded by a closed figure.

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69. What is interest?

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Correct Answer: A charge for using someone else's money.

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70. 0 is its own _______.

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Correct Answer: Opposite

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71. What is an instance of a pattern?

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Correct Answer: Special case

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72. A polygon whose vertices are all on the same circle is known as what?

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Correct Answer: An inscribed polygon

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73. What is the input in a function machine?

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Correct Answer: A number inserted into an imaginary function machine

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74. What is the term for a number sentence with a relation symbol other than =?

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Correct Answer: Inequality

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75. What is indirect measurement?

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Correct Answer: The determination of heights, distances, and other quantities that cannot be measured directly.

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76. What does " Billings, D3" mean?

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Correct Answer: That Billings is in the rectangle to the right of D and above 3 on the map.

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77. What does "index of locations" mean?

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Correct Answer: A list of places together with a reference frame for locating them on a map.

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78. What is the independent variable in a function?

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Correct Answer: The variable x in a function defined by the set of ordered pairs (x,y).

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79. What is an independent variable?

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Correct Answer: A variable whose value does not rely on the values of other variables

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80. What is the formula to convert inches to feet?

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Correct Answer: 1 inch = 1/12 foot

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81. What is a fraction with a numerator that is greater than or equal to its denominator called?

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Correct Answer: Improper fraction

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82. What is the image of a figure that is produced by a transformation of another figure called?

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Correct Answer: The preimage

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83. What is a figure that is produced by a transformation of another figure called?

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Correct Answer: Image

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84. How many faces does an icosahedron have?

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Correct Answer: 20

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85. What is an icon?

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Correct Answer: A small picture or diagram sometimes used to represent quantities

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86. What is the hypotenuse?

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Correct Answer: The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle

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87. What does horizontal mean?

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Correct Answer: Parallel to the horizon.

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88. What is the horizon?

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Correct Answer: The horizon is where the earth and sky appear to meet.

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89. How many sides does a hexagon have?

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Correct Answer: 6

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90. Hat does the prefix "hexa-" mean?

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Correct Answer: Six

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91. What is a Heptagon?

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Correct Answer: A 7-sided polygon

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92. What is the meaning of the prefix "hepta"?

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Correct Answer: Seven

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93. What is the prefix for seven?

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Correct Answer: Hepta-

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94. The word "hemisphere" can mean which of the following?

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Correct Answer: Half of Earth's surface

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95. What is another word for 'hemisphere'?

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Correct Answer: Half of a sphere

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96. What is the height of a triangle?

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Correct Answer: The length of the shortest segment from a vertex of a triangle to the line containing the opposite side.

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97. What is the height of a rectangle?

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Correct Answer: The length of a side perpendicular to a base of a rectangle.

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98. What is the height of a pyramid or cone?

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Correct Answer: The shortest line segment from the apex of a pyramid or cone to the plane containing the base.

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99. Which of the following is not a type of height?

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Correct Answer: Height of a square

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100. What is the meaning of "hand span"?

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Correct Answer: Same as great span.

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101. What affect do nesting grouping symbols have on the order of operations in an expression?

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Correct Answer: The innermost grouping is done first.

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102. What is the name given to symbols that define the order in which operations in an expression are to be done?

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Correct Answer: Grouping symbols

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103. What is the average great span for adults?

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Correct Answer: 9 inches

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104. What is the largest factor two or more counting numbers have in common?

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Correct Answer: Greatest common factor

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105. What is the greatest common factor of 24 and 36?

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Correct Answer: 12

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106. What's another name for a graph key?

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Correct Answer: Graph legend

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107. What is a graph key?

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Correct Answer: An annotated list of the symbols used in a graph explaining how to read the graph.

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108. A metric unit of mass equal to 1/1,000 of a kilogram is called a:

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Correct Answer: Gram

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109. What is the meaning of the suffix -gon?

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Correct Answer: Angle

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110. What is the Golden Ratio?

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Correct Answer: 1.618 to 1

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111. What is the value of the Golden Ratio?

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Correct Answer: 1.618

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112. What does the term "girth" mean?

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Correct Answer: The distance around a 3-dimensional object.

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113. What is the unit of measurement on the ruler with 1 16 -inch intervals?

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Correct Answer: Inches

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114. What is the definition of a geometric solid?

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Correct Answer: The surface or surfaces that make up a 3-dimensional figure

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115. What is the name for the surface that makes up a 3-dimensional figure?

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Correct Answer: Geometric solid

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116. What is a geoboard?

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Correct Answer: A manipulative 2-dimensional coordinate system made with nails or other posts at equally spaced intervals relative to both axes.

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117. What is the number of holes in a donut?

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Correct Answer: 1

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118. What is the topological equivalent of a shape with a genus of 2?

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Correct Answer: A teacup

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119. What is the process of generating a random number called?

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Correct Answer: Random Number Generation

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120. What is a number model for a pattern or rule called in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: General pattern

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121. What is the equivalent of 1 gallon in quarts?

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Correct Answer: 4 quarts

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122. What is a furlong?

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Correct Answer: A unit of length equal to 1 eighth of a mile

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123. What is the output of the function machine if the input is 4?

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Correct Answer: 8

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124. A function is a set of ordered pairs in which each value of x is paired with _____

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Correct Answer: Exactly one value of y

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