Name ___Dana Jeffs

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Fall 2016 Date _____________________

Math 1010
Conceptual Quiz, Chapter 7

Answer the following questions. Answers may vary in length from a few sentences to a
paragraph. Use correct grammar, including using complete sentences. Answers with abundant
grammatical errors will not be awarded full credit. If you need more space than is provided,
attach a separate sheet with your answers.

Ch.7: Exponents and Radicals

1. Without using the words take the square root, try to explain in words the meaning of
square roots. For example, why is 64 8 a true statement? More generally, when is
b a a true statement? Try the same thing for cube roots.

A number that produces a specified quantity when multiplied, the above problem is a true
statement. The cube root of a number is a special value that when used in a multiplication
three times, gives that number.

Square root (and Im only saying this because it does not have the function key for this
on my laptop) is 8 x 8 = 64 = true statement

Example: 3 x 3 x 3 = 27 so the cube root of 27 is 3

2. How do the rules of exponents lead us to the conclusion that a a ?

1/2

X 1/n = The n-th root of x

So the fraction exponent like 4 3/2 (smaller) is really saying to da a cube (3) and a Squair
root (1/2) in any order.
The order dosent matter so it also works for a (smaller) = sq root a
 3. You tell your friend that youre having a hard time remembering how to multiply and
divide radicals. She says, Its easy- as long as you know your rules for exponents. What
is she talking about?

The law that x m x n (m and n smaller expo=nents) = x m+n (exponents)

With x m x n (exponents) how many times do we end up multiplying x ? = first m times

then by another n times so x 2 x 3 = (2 +3) = x (5) (2,3,5 are small exponents)
The law that x m /x n = x m-n = m times (m and n are exponents) then reduce that by n times
(because we are dividing) for a total of m-n times
So x 4/x2 = x(4-2) = x 2 (pretend all the 4,2, are exponents I dont know how to do this on the
computer. )

4. In mathematics there are many If a then b statements. The Principle of Powers (p. 470)
is an example. Use the Principle of Powers to show an example of when If a then b is
true but If b then a isnt. (In other, the order of the statement matters!)

Seems like it means a = b, then a^n = b^n follow the order of operations
1. Parentheses
2. Exponents and radicals
3. Multiplication and division
4. Addition and subtraction
Principle 1. Operations on same-base powers shift one place down fundamental rule of
exponents.
2. Operations distribute any operation one line down General Distribution Rule.

5. Pythagoras gets all credit! But how long have people known about the relationship
between the lengths of the sides of a right triangle? Do a quick internet search and
summarize who, where, and when there is evidence of people knowing the Pythagorean
Theorem.

Ancient clay tablets from Babylonia indicated that the Babylonians in the second
millennium B.C. 1000 years before Pythagoras, had rules for generating Pythagorean
triples.
A Chinese astronomical and mathematical treaties called Chou Pei Suan Chng, (the
arithmetical classic of the gnomon and the circular paths of heaven, 500-200 B.C. )
possibly predating Pythagoras, gives a statement of and geometrical demonstration of the
Pythagorean theorem.