Unit 3 math

Prime factorization

Writing a number in the form of a multiplication of all it’s prime factors 6=2*3

GCF

The largest number that is a factor over a given set of numbers

LCM

Smallest number that is divisible by any set of given numbers

Perfect cube

Any whole number represented as the volume of a cube with a whole number edge length

Cube root

Edge length of a cube

Polynomial

An expression with two or more algebraic terms

Distributive property

Multiplying a sum by a number is the same as multiplying each addend by the number and then adding the products

Factoring by decomposition

A form of factoring by writing the middle term as a sum of two terms then determining a common binomial factor between the two pairs of terms formed