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CLEP General Mathematics: Arithmetic Basics
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CLEP General Mathematics: Arithmetic Basics
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1. For Data Sufficiency problems involving percent change - all you need to compute a percent change is ____ ?

2. 3/2 - 8/3 - -16/5 - 7/7

3. What is the formula for the Sum of Interior Angles of a Polygon? ...where n = the number of sides

4. Why are Even Exponents dangerous?

5. A length that is half the diameter of a circle; the distance from the center of the circle to the circle itself

6. Step 1: Change the subtraction sign to the addition sign - and then switch the sign of the subtrahend the number that immediately follows the operation sign you just changed. Step 2: Add the result according to the procedures for adding signed integ

7. The smallest multiple that two or more numbers have in common

8. Having the same size and shape

9. What is the formula forCounting consecutive multiples?

10. Things are Equal in Magnitude when they are

11. Every quantity is equal to itself.

12. A known quantity we refer to as One.

13. Adding integers that have opposite signs means

14. When will a decimal Not terminate and why?

15. Any value divided by one

16. Multiply the numerator of a positive - proper fraction by 1/2 Explain why this is true: True because: When you square a variable x - the result is positive - no matter what the sign of the base.Remember - even exponents hide the sign of the base. The

17. A drawing of an object that is different in size (usually smaller than the original) but keeps the same proportions

18. The result of the division called the

19. The nearer any lesser number approaches a greater number - the less often will it be contained in that greater number.

20. The result of multiplying two or more numbers.

21. This is an addition problem. Although the addends both have negative values - you still add their absolute values.

22. In an equation made up of two fractions - the numerator of one fraction times the denominator of the other fraction.

23. A triangle with sides of different lengths and no two angles are the same.

24. Does not affect its value at all. Zeros that are used at the left end of a number are called leading zeros - and are used only for special reasons.

25. To make a fraction easier to work with by taking out common factors