Quick assessment on writing expressions and parts of expressions
A student was trying to represent the following sentence using an algebraic expression:
h times 3
Sort the answer options into either correct or incorrect.
h3
3h
3xh
3 / h
h to the third power
Correct!
Incorrect
Decide the placement of each statement:
Coefficient goes before the variable
An algebraic expression has an exponent
An algebraic expression has an variable
An algebraic expression has an equal sign
3m is bigger than 2y
A variable is a capital letter
x to the zero power = 1
Always True
Sometimes True
Never True
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