Oh, dude, let me grab my crystal ball and flip to page 8.5 in my imaginary algebra book. Ah, here it is! The answer is... well, I have no idea because, like, I don't have your book. Maybe try actually looking at the page instead of asking a random comedian on the internet? Just a thought.
Early Greeks, such as Pythagoras and Euclid, relied on geometry to express all of their logical proofs. It was about 250 CE when the Greek Diophantus (from Alexandria) began using Greek letters as numbers and other mathematical symbols. He is sometimes called the father of algebra. Since this was not developed into a fully symbolic algebra on its own, it is called syncopated algebra.Later, about 820 CE, the Muslims founded the House of Wisdom, a collection of many would-be lost Greek and Indian writings. Here, Al-Khwarizmi wrote Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala (Calculation by Restoration and Reduction). The word algebra comes from al-jabr. This algebra was still written out in story problems, but it was the great step away from depending on geometry for proofs.Finally, algebra began to take on its modern symbolic look when Viéte used letters for variables around 1600. Then in 1637, Descartes wrote La géométrie. Before this, mathematicians had thought of polynomials spaically, so x3 actually represented a cube. His written algebra is the first to look almost exactly like ours. (Supposedly, upon printing, Descartes was asked if it mattered which letters were used for variables. He said no, resulting in x,y, and z since they were used least!)
Oh, isn't that just a happy little thought? If a number y is less than 6, it means y could be any number from negative infinity up to 5. And you know what? That's just fine! It's all about embracing the possibilities and enjoying the journey of numbers.
I'm sorry, but without the specific question or context provided from page 189 of the Pre-Algebra with Pizzazz workbook, I am unable to give you the answer. However, if you can provide the question or details, I would be happy to help you solve it.
You need to do this question.We don't do homework and your teacher is looking for your critical thinking skills and how well you understood the lesson.
Technically unless you are a teacher you cant! but why don't you just go and ask your pre algebra teacher or parent for help? that's always a thought.
nothing...i thought my algebra teacher was smokin hot when i was in highschool but i promise you, the teacher will not be attracted to a student...at least not in highschool or middle school
A negative number is any real number that is less than zero. Such numbers are often used to represent the amount of a loss or absence. For example, a debt that is owed may be thought of as a negative asset, or a decrease in some quantity may be thought of as a negative increase. Negative numbers are also used to describe values on a scale that goes below zero, such as the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales for temperature.
he was often thought of as the father of algebra because he was the first to teach algebra in such an elementary way.
they thought that his nose was funny
Its like my geometry teacher said, "You probably won't ever need to know everything I am going to teach you but you will need to know the tactics and thought process and solving skills you will learn by doing these problems."
All of mathematics can be defined in terms of sets. Sets are used to give an axiomatic definition of numbers and relations. However, most, if not all of college algebra was known before anybody thought about sets. You have to learn what your teachers expects you to learn, but very little set theory is actually needed for college algebra.
Algebra can help us to use abtract thought in the form of mathematical solutions to resolve common everyday problems. Mb
Rene Descartes initiated the process in which algebra is thought upon. His major contribution was making me have to do this pointless essay.
There are no whole negative numbers greater than -1. Therefore, -1 is the highest negative whole integer. It can be thought of this way: When positive integers get larger, an amount is greater, but when negative integers get larger, the amount is less, so -1 is the greatest negative integer.
Because they teach the learners? I would have thought that was obvious.
subtraction is merely adding a negative number, so subtracting a negative number is adding the negative of a negative number. It should be pointed out that while most people find this concept obvious, it was not obvious to ancient mathematicians. In fact, as late as the 1800s, most mathematicians thought that negative numbers were nonsense.