Exam 1: Notation and Symbols

Perform the indicated operations. Simplify as much as possible. If the expression is undefined, answer undefined .

Perform the indicated operations.

Use the rule for order of operations to simplify the expression as much as possible.

Perform the indicated operation.

Use the associative property to rewrite the expression. Simplify the result. __________

Use the rule for order of operations to simplify the expression as much as possible.

Divide and reduce the answer to lowest terms.

Simplify the expression.

The following is a geometric sequence. Find the next number in the sequence.

Perform the indicated operation.

Perform the indicated operation and reduce to lowest terms.

Reduce the fraction to lowest terms by first factoring the numerator and denominator into the product of prime factors and then dividing out any factors they have in common.

For the sentence below, write an equivalent expression in symbols. The product of 4 and y is less than or equal to the sum of y and 3.

Rewrite the following phrase as an equivalent expression in symbols, and then simplify. Subtract -7 from -9.

Work the following problem using the rule for addition of real numbers.

Factor into the product of prime factors.

In 1993 the government standardized the way in which nutrition information was presented on the labels of most packaged food products. The figure shows a standardized food label from a package of cookies that I ate at lunch the day I was writing the problems for this problem set. Use the information in the figure to answer the following question. If I paid $0.50 for the package of cookies, how much did each cookie cost?

The following is a geometric sequence. Find the next number in the sequence.

Fibonacci sequence = 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, . . . Any number in the Fibonacci sequence is a Fibonacci number . Name the Fibonacci numbers that are prime numbers and less than 20.

Subtract.