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Is a decimal bigger than a fraction?

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2014-02-04 11:48:23

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Not necessarily. They are simply two different ways of writing numbers that can be big or small.

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A polynomial of degree zero is a constant term

The grouping method of factoring can still be used when only some of the terms share a common factor A True B False

The sum or difference of p and q is the of the x-term in the trinomial

A number a power of a variable or a product of the two is a monomial while a polynomial is the of monomials

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