What is a prime number?
A natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself
Example: 5 is a prime number because its only divisors are 1 and 5.
Is 8 a prime number?
No, because its divisors are more than 1 and 8
Divisors of 8 include 1, 2, 4, and 8.
What is a composite number?
A whole number greater than 1 that has more than two positive factors
It can be expressed as a product of smaller whole numbers greater than 1.
Give examples of prime numbers.
2, 3, 5, 7
These numbers have exactly two factors: 1 and themselves.
What are real numbers?
All numbers that can be represented on a continuous number line, including rational and irrational numbers
Rational numbers include integers and fractions.
Define natural numbers.
Counting numbers: 1, 2, 3, …
Natural numbers do not include zero.
What are whole numbers?
Natural numbers plus zero: 0, 1, 2, 3, …
Whole numbers include all non-negative integers.
What are integers?
Whole numbers and their negative counterparts: …, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, …
Integers include all positive and negative whole numbers.
Define rational numbers.
Numbers that can be expressed as a fraction of two integers (e.g., 1/2, -3/4, 0.75)
Rational numbers include both positive and negative values.
What is a perfect square?
A number that can be expressed as the product of an integer with itself
Example: 9 is a perfect square because it is equal to 3^2.
What is an integer multiple?
A product of a number and any integer
Example: 12 is a multiple of 3 because 12 = 3×4.
What does M(x) mean in the context given?
x is an integer multiple of 4
This means 4 is multiplied by some integer (n) to get x.
If x=8, what is the integer n when x is an integer multiple of 4?
n is 2
Because 8 = 4×2.
What are consecutive numbers?
Integers that follow one another in order, such that if a is an integer, then b=a+1
Example: If a is 3, then b is 4.
Fill in the blank: A perfect square is a number that can be expressed as the product of an integer with _______.
itself
What is the definition of an even integer?
An integer x is even if there is an integer k such that x=2k.
What is the definition of an odd integer?
An integer x is odd if there is an integer k such that x=2k+1.
What does the parity of a number refer to?
The parity of a number is whether the number is odd or even.
If two numbers are both even or both odd, what can be said about their parity?
Then the two numbers have the same parity.
What can be said about the parity of one odd and one even number?
Then the two numbers have opposite parity.
What is the technique used to determine if a number is even or odd?
The technique relies on the fact that any even number, when divided by 2, will result in an integer with no remainder.
What does it mean if you can factor out a 2 completely?
It’s even.
What does it mean if you can factor out a 2, leaving a remainder of 1?
It’s odd.
How can you show that 0.677 is a rational number?
By giving an integer x such that r=x/y, where x=677 and y=1000.
y correlates to the decimal place.