Chapter 2 vocab
- Absolute value - The absolute value of a number is its distance from 0 on a number line.
ex: the absolute value of -6 is 6.
- Additive inverses - Additive inverses are a number and it’s opposite.
ex: the sum of a number and it’s additive inverse is 0.
- Irrational numbers - An number that can’t be expressed as a terminating or repeating decimal.
- Measure of central tendency - Numbers/pieces of data that can represent whole sets of data.
- Odds - The ratio that compares the number of ways an event can occur to the number of ways an event can’t occur.
- Perfect square - Numbers that have a rational square root.
- Probability - The ratio of the number of favorable outcomes for an event to the number of possible outcomes of the event.
- Rational number - A set of numbers expressed in the form of a fraction a/b.
- Absolute value - The absolute value of a number is its distance from 0 on a number line.
ex: the absolute value of -6 is 6.
- Additive inverses - Additive inverses are a number and it’s opposite.
ex: the sum of a number and it’s additive inverse is 0.
- Irrational numbers - An number that can’t be expressed as a terminating or repeating decimal.
- Measure of central tendency - Numbers/pieces of data that can represent whole sets of data.
- Odds - The ratio that compares the number of ways an event can occur to the number of ways an event can’t occur.
- Perfect square - Numbers that have a rational square root.
- Probability - The ratio of the number of favorable outcomes for an event to the number of possible outcomes of the event.
- Rational number - A set of numbers expressed in the form of a fraction a/b.
