Vocabulary List 3

choosing a variable and deciding what the variable represents

• data

• distribution

• defining the variable

• cubic units

used to measure volume, tells the number of cubes of a given size it will take to fill a three-dimensional figure

• cubic units

• constant

• data

• Division Property of Equality

a term without a variable

• data

• constant

• distribution

• divident

information, often numerical, which is gathered for statistical purposes

• coordinate plane

• data

• constant

• distribution

a plane in which a horizontal number line and a vertical number line intersect at their zero points

• coordinate plane

• dividend

• Division Property of Equality

• data

If you divide each side of an equation by the same nonzero number, the two sides remain equal.

• divident

• Division Property of Equality

• Distributive Property

• dependent variable

the variable in a relation with a value that depends on the value of the independent variable

• dividend

• data

• dependent variable

• constant

the number that is divided in a division problem

• defining the variable

• data

• distribution

• dividend

the arrangement of data values

• data

• dividend

• distribution

• Distributive Property

To multiply a sum by a number, multiply each addend by the number outside the parentheses.

• Distributive Property

• distribution

• Division Property of Equality

• defining the variable