Engineering Mathematics MCQ

1. What is a rate-multiplication story?

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Correct Answer: A number story in which one quantity is a rate times another quantity.

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2. What is the rate in the following example?100 mi 2 hr

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Correct Answer: 50 miles per hour

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3. What does the word "rank" mean?

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Correct Answer: To put in order by size; to sort from smallest to largest or vice versa.

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4. What does the word "range" mean?

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Correct Answer: The difference between the maximum and the minimum in a set of data.

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5. What is a random number?

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Correct Answer: A number produced by a random experiment

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6. What is a random experiment?

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Correct Answer: An experiment in which all outcomes are equally likely.

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7. What is the plural form of radius?

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Correct Answer: Radiuses or radii

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8. What is the quotitive division?

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Correct Answer: Same as measurement division.

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9. What is the result of dividing one number by another number called?

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Correct Answer: Quotient

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10. What is the quick common denominator of 3/4 and 5/6?

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Correct Answer: 24

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11. What is a U.S. customary unit of volume or capacity that equals to 32 fluid ounces?

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Correct Answer: Quart

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12. How many cups are in a quart?

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Correct Answer: 4

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13. How many sides does a quadrilateral have?

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Correct Answer: 4

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14. What is another word for quadrilateral?

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Correct Answer: Quadrangle

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15. What does the prefix "quad" mean?

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Correct Answer: Four

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16. If the legs of a right triangle have lengths a and b, and the hypotenuse has length c, what is the value of c?

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Correct Answer: C = √(a^2 + b^2)

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17. What is a pyramid?

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Correct Answer: A polyhedron with a triangular base and three or more triangular sides

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18. What is a protractor used for?

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Correct Answer: Measuring or drawing angles

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19. A full-circle protractor can measure and draw angles up to _____?

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Correct Answer: 360°

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20. What is a proportion?

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Correct Answer: A number model equating two fractions

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21. Is a proper fraction always between -1 and 1?

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Correct Answer: Yes

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22. Which is an example of a proper fraction?

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Correct Answer: 3/4

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23. What is a proper factor?

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Correct Answer: Any factor of a counting number except the number itself

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24. What is a project in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: An activity to be completed in one or more days by small groups or by a whole class.

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25. How do you program a calculator to repeat a calculation?

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Correct Answer: Use the memory

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26. What is the product of 4 and 3?

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Correct Answer: 12

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27. What is the result of multiplying two numbers called?

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Correct Answer: Product

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28. What is a probability tree diagram?

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Correct Answer: A drawing used to analyze a probability situation that consists of two or more choices or stages.

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29. What does the Probability Meter show?

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Correct Answer: Probabilities as fractions, decimals, and percents

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30. What is the probability of a fair coin showing HEADS?

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Correct Answer: 1/2

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31. A prism is a polyhedron with _____.

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Correct Answer: Two parallel and congruent polygonal regions for bases and lateral faces

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32. What is a prime number?

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Correct Answer: A counting number greater than 1 that has exactly two whole number factors, 1 and itself

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33. What is the prime meridian?

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Correct Answer: An imaginary semicircle on Earth that connects the North and South Poles through Greenwich, England.

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34. What does every counting number greater than 1 have?

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Correct Answer: A unique prime factorization

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35. What is the preimage in a transformation?

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Correct Answer: The original figure in a transformation

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36. In statistics, what is a prediction line called?

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Correct Answer: Regression analysis

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37. What does the word "predict" mean in mathematics?

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Correct Answer: To say what will happen in the future based on experimental data or theoretical calculation

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38. How many 16-inch markings are on a ruler that is more precise than a ruler with only 1/4-inch markings?

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Correct Answer: 1

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39. Which is more precise, a measurement to the nearest foot or a measurement to the nearest inch?

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Correct Answer: Nearest inch

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40. What term is used to describe the level of accuracy of a measurement?

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Correct Answer: Significant digits

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41. What does the word "precise" mean?

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Correct Answer: Exact or accurate

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42. In Everyday Mathematics, what is a power of 10?

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Correct Answer: A number that can be written in the form 10 a, where a is a counting number

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43. What is the power of a number?

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Correct Answer: The product of factors that are all the same

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44. What does the term "power" mean in math?

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Correct Answer: Exponent

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45. What is a U.S. customary unit of weight equal to 16 ounces?

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Correct Answer: Pound

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46. What is the conversion rate of 1 pound to kilograms?

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Correct Answer: 0.45359237 kilograms

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47. What are positive rational numbers?

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Correct Answer: Rational numbers greater than zero

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48. A number that can be written in the form 10 a, where a is a counting number is called?

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Correct Answer: Positive power of 10

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49. What are positive numbers?

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Correct Answer: Numbers greater than 0

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50. What are the opposites of the negative numbers?

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Correct Answer: Positive numbers

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51. What is the number of people given as a rate per square mile?

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Correct Answer: Population density

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52. What is the definition of population?

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Correct Answer: The total number of people living within a defined geographic region.

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53. What is the plural of polyhedron?

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Correct Answer: Polyhedrons or polyhedra

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54. Which of the following is NOT a 3-dimensional figure?

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Correct Answer: Square

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55. A set of points in a plane that are connected by line segments is called?

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Correct Answer: A polygon

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56. What is the minimum number of sides that a polygon can have?

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Correct Answer: 3

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57. What does the prefix "poly-" mean?

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Correct Answer: Many

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58. What is point symmetry?

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Correct Answer: A figure has point symmetry if it is a reflection image of itself through a center of symmetry C.

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59. What is a point in mathematics?

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Correct Answer: An exact location in space

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60. Which of the following is not a plane figure?

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Correct Answer: Cubes

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61. What is a plane in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: A 2-dimensional flat surface that extends forever in all directions.

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62. In formal Euclidean geometry, what is plane?

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Correct Answer: An undefined geometric term

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63. What is place value?

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Correct Answer: A system that gives a digit a value according to its position, or place, in a number.

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64. What is the value of the digit 5 in the number 325?

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Correct Answer: 5

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65. A U.S. pint is

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Correct Answer: Equal to 2 cups

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66. What is a pie graph?

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Correct Answer: A graph that is shaped like a circle, with each section representing a percentage of the whole

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67. Which of the following is true about pi (π)?

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Correct Answer: It is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

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68. What is a per-unit rate?

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Correct Answer: A rate with 1 unit of something in the denominator.

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69. What does a per-unit rate tell you?

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Correct Answer: How many of one thing there are for 1 unit of another thing

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70. What is a "personal-measurement reference"?

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Correct Answer: A convenient approximation for a standard unit of measurement

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71. What is a perpendicular bisector?

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Correct Answer: A line, ray, or segment that bisects a line segment at a right angle.

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72. What is the perpendicular bisector of a line segment?

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Correct Answer: A line that bisects a line segment at a right angle.

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73. What is the symbol for "is perpendicular to"?

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Correct Answer:

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74. What is the perimeter of a rectangle with length l and width w?

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Correct Answer: P = 2 * (l + w)

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75. What is 1% expressed as a decimal?

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Correct Answer: 0.01

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76. What does "per capita" mean?

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Correct Answer: For each person

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77. What does "per" mean?

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Correct Answer: For each, as in ten chairs per row or six tickets per family

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78. What is a 5-sided polygon called?

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Correct Answer: Pentagon

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79. What does the prefix "penta-" mean?

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Correct Answer: Five

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80. What is a pattern?

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Correct Answer: A repetitive order or arrangement

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81. What is the denominator of a part-whole fraction?

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Correct Answer: The whole, or the ONE

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82. What is a part-to-whole ratio?

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Correct Answer: A ratio that compares a part of a whole to the whole.

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83. What is a part-to-part ratio?

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Correct Answer: A ratio that compares a part of a whole to another part of the same whole.

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84. What is a parts-and-total story?

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Correct Answer: A number story in which a whole is made up of distinct parts.

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85. In which section of Everyday Mathematics can you find more information on parts-and-total diagrams?

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Correct Answer: Section 10.3.1

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86. What is the term for the type of division used to solve an equal-sharing story?

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Correct Answer: Partitive division

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87. What is the final product in partial-products multiplication?

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Correct Answer: The sum of the partial products

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88. What is the meaning of parentheses?

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Correct Answer: Grouping symbols

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89. What are parallels?

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Correct Answer: Lines of latitude

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90. What are parallel planes?

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Correct Answer: Planes in space that never meet.

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91. What are two parallel planes?

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Correct Answer: Two parallel planes are always the same distance apart.

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92. What is the definition of parallel lines?

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Correct Answer: Lines in a plane that never meet.

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93. What is the name for problems in which pan balances represent linear equations?

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Correct Answer: Pan-balance problems

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94. What does a pan balance represent in Fifth and Sixth Grade Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: Linear equations

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95. What is a pan balance?

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Correct Answer: A device used to weigh objects or compare their weights

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96. Which of the following is the correct definition of output?

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Correct Answer: Numbers or other information displayed by calculator or computer.

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97. What is the meaning of the word "outcome"?

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Correct Answer: A possible result of a chance experiment or situation

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98. A U.S. customary unit of weight equal to 1 16 of a pound is known as?

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Correct Answer: Ounce

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99. On a coordinate grid, where do the two axes intersect?

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Correct Answer: At the point (0,0)

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100. What is the definition of an ordinal number?

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Correct Answer: The position or order of something in a sequence

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101. What are positive powers of 10 called?

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Correct Answer: Orders of magnitude

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102. What is the definition of an ordered pair?

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Correct Answer: Two numbers, or coordinates, used to locate a point on a rectangular coordinate grid.

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103. What is the order of rotation symmetry?

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Correct Answer: The number of times a rotation image of a figure coincides with the figure before completing a 360° rotation.

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104. What is the order of operations?

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Correct Answer: Rules that tell the order in which operations in an expression should be carried out.

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105. What does OOOP stand for?

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Correct Answer: Order of Operations

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106. What is a 10-times change in value called?

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Correct Answer: Order-of-magnitude increase

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107. What is the side opposite an angle of a triangle that is not a side of the angle called?

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Correct Answer: The opposite side

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108. What is the sum of a number and its opposite?

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Correct Answer: Zero

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109. If 'n' is a negative number, what is -n?

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Correct Answer: Positive number

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110. What is the opposite-change rule for addition?

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Correct Answer: An addition algorithm in which a number is added to one addend and subtracted from the other addend.

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111. What are two angles in a quadrilateral that do not share a side called?

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Correct Answer: Opposite angles

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112. What is true about opposite angles?

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Correct Answer: They are always equal.

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113. What are opposite angles?

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Correct Answer: Same as vertical angles.

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114. What is the opposite angle in a triangle?

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Correct Answer: The angle opposite a side of a triangle that is not one of the sides of the angle.

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115. What is the OPP of 3?

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Correct Answer: -3

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116. What does OPP stand for in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: Opposite of a number n

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117. Which of the following is not an operation symbol?

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Correct Answer: Subtraction -

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118. Which of the following is not an operation?

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Correct Answer: Addition

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119. What is an open sentence?

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Correct Answer: A number sentence with one or more variables that is neither true nor false.

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120. What is an example of an open sentence?

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Correct Answer: 9 + __ = 15

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121. What is an open proportion?

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Correct Answer: An open proportion is an open sentence that is neither true nor false.

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122. What is a 1-dimensional figure?

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Correct Answer: A figure that has length but no width or depth

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123. What is the value of ONE in Everyday Mathematics?

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Correct Answer: Whole or unit whole

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124. What is an odd number?

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Correct Answer: A counting number that is not divisible by 2

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