COLLEGE ALGEBRA AND PLANE

TRIGONOMETRY
REAL NUMBER - cannot be imaginary
SET - collection of subjects
1. RATIONAL NUMBERS - can be written in the form of fraction (a/b) and cannot be irrational
 FRACTIONS -
 TERMINATING DECIMALS - [ex. 0.25, 9.364]
 NONTERMINATING, REPEATING DECIMALS - [ex. 0.333…, 4.1729]
 INTEGERS - {…-4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,…}
 NEGATIVE INTEGERS - {…, -4, -3, -2, -1}
 WHOLE NUMBERS - includes zero
 NATURAL NUMBERS - known as counting numbers {1,2,3,4} which doesn't includes zero
IRRATIONAL NUMBERS
 nonterminating, nonrepeating decimals
 cannot be written as fraction
 
IMAGINARY NUMBERS - square root of negative 1 is I and cannot be real
 
COMPLEX NUMBERS - combination of real and imaginary numbers
 
 
ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS
 expression consisting of constants and variables with different grouping symbols, exponents and
operations
 if there is no equal sign x can have any value
 solve from left to right
 
LIKE OR SIMILAR TERMS - terms with identical literal parts
 
POLYNOMIALS
 algebraic expression with certain conditions
 subset of algebraic expression