Chapter 3 Flashcards
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. irrational
A. A city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela
2. principal
B. The divisor of a fraction
3. squareroot
C. All of something including all its component elements or parts
4. rational
D. One of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the ___ of 2/3 is 3/2
5. real
E. A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
6. reciprocal
F. A real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number
7. prime
G. Any rational or irrational number
8. buckeyes
H. The base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
9. pittsburgh
I. To take off or away
10. stump
J. An integer or a fraction
11. add
K. The original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
12. subtract
L. Any of the natural numbers or zero
13. multiply
M. The inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut (plural)
14. divide
N. In several ways
15. numerator
O. A natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself
16. denominator
P. A condition characterized by behavioral and learning disorders
17. whole
Q. The dividend of a fraction
18. integer
R. A number that when multiplied by itself equals a given number