Numbers And Operations Flashcards
Natural number
Greater than 0 and has no decimals or fractions attached.
Whole number
Natural numbers and the number 0
Integers
Positive and negative natural numbers and 0
Rational number
Can be represented as a fraction.
Irrational number
Cannot be represented as a fraction. Never ends or resolves into a repeating pattern.
Real number
Can be represented by a point on a number line.
Imaginary number
Imaginary numbers produce a negative value when squared.
Complex number
All imaginary numbers are complex. Real numbers. A + Bi
Factor
All numbers that can multiply together to make the number
Composite number
More than two factors. Example: 6. Factors 1, 6, 3, 2
Commutative property
An operation if order doesn’t matter when performing the operation
For example: (-2)(3) = (3)(-2)
Associative property
An operation if elements can be regrouped without changing the result.
For example: -3 + (-5 + 4) = (-3 + -5) + 4
Distributive property
A product of sums can be written as a sum of products.
For example: a(b+c) = ab + ac
FOIL
First, Outer, Inner, Last
Useful way to remember the distributive property
Identity element
The identity element for multiplication on real numbers is 1 (a x 1) = a
For addition is 0 (a + 0) = a
Inverse element
Addition : -a because a + (-a)=0
Multiplication: 1/à because a*1/a=a
Closed number system
An operation on two elements of the system results in another element of that system.
For example: integers during addition, multiplication, subtracting, but not division. Dividing two integers could result in a rational number that is not an integer.
Conjugate
where you change the sign (+ to −, or − to +) in the middle of two terms.
Examples:
• from 3x + 1 to 3x − 1
• from 2z − 7 to 2z + 7
• from a − b to a + b
Complex conjugate
the number with an equal real part and an imaginary part equal in magnitude but opposite in sign.
4+7i is 4 - 7i.
Adding complex numbers
simply add the real parts and add the imaginary parts. For example:
(3+4i)+(6−10i)
= (3+6)+(4−10)i
= 9−6i
Subtracting complex numbers
we simply subtract the real parts and subtract the imaginary parts. For example:
=(3+4i)−(6−10i)
=(3−6)+(4−(−10))i
=−3+14i
Multiplying complex numbers
we perform a multiplication similar to how we expand the parentheses in binomial products:
(a+b)(c+d)=ac+ad+bc+bd
Unlike regular binomial multiplication, with complex numbers we also consider the fact that
i^2=−1
2⋅(−3+4i)
2⋅(−3+4i)
=2⋅(−3)+2⋅4i
=−6+8i
3i⋅(1−5i)
3i⋅(1−5i)
=3i⋅1+3i⋅(−5)i
=3i−15i ^2
=3i−15(−1)
=15+3i