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Example Question #2001 : Problem Solving Questions
Define an operation on the integers as follows:
If both and are prime, then .
If neither nor is prime, then .
If exactly one of and is prime, then .
Subtract from . What is the result?
2 is a prime number, since 2 has only two factors, 1 and 2 itself. 50 is not a prime number, since 50 has other factors, such as 2. can be evaluated using the definition of for exactly one of and prime:
Neither 4 nor 25 are prime, since each has factors other than 1 and itself; for example, and . can be evaluated using the definition of for neither nor prime:
The difference:
Example Question #2001 : Problem Solving Questions
is the additive inverse of . Which of the following expressions is equivalent to
for all values of the variables?
If is the additive inverse of , then
, or, equivalently,
By way of substitution and the identity property of addition,
Example Question #49 : Understanding Real Numbers
Define an operation on the integers as follows:
If both and are prime, then .
If neither nor is prime, then .
If exactly one of and is prime, then .
Evaluate .
17 and 13 are both prime numbers, since each has exactly two factors - 1 and the number itself. Therefore, we first evaluate using the definition of for and both prime:
Therefore, . 7 is also prime, since its only two factors are 1 and 7 itself. 30, however, is not prime, since 30 has factors other than 1 and itself - for example, . Therefore, is evaluated using the definition of for exactly one of and prime:
, the correct response.
Example Question #50 : Understanding Real Numbers
Define an operation on the integers as follows:
If both and are prime, then .
If neither nor is prime, then .
If exactly one of and is prime, then .
Which of the following expressions is the greatest of the five?
Of the integers shown in the five choices, the following are primes, since they have exactly two factors, 1 and the number itself: 2, 5.
1 is not consdered to be a prime, having exactly one factor (1). Also, 4, 10, 20, 25, 50, and 100 are not primes, since each has at least one factor other than 1 and itself.
and can both be evaluated using the definition of for exactly one of and prime - that is, by multiplying the numbers:
Each of , , and can be evaluated using the definition of for neither of and prime - that is, by adding the numbers:
The greatest of the five expressions is .
Example Question #1 : Descriptive Statistics
Consider the following set of numbers:
85, 87, 87, 82, 89
What is the range?
The range is the difference between the maximum and minimum value.
Example Question #1 : Descriptive Statistics
What is the range for the following data set:
The range is the highest value number minus the lowest value number in a sorted data set:
We need to sort the data set:
Example Question #2 : Descriptive Statistics
What is the range for the following set:
The range is the difference between the highest and lowest number.
First sort the set:
Example Question #3 : Descriptive Statistics
Below is the stem-and-leaf display of a set of test scores.
What is the range of this set of scores?
The range of a data set is the difference of the highest and lowest scores,
The numbers in the "stem" of this display represent tens digits of the test scores, and the numbers in the "leaves" represent the units digits. The highest and lowest scores represented are 87 and 42, so the range is their difference: .
Example Question #2 : Range
Below is the stem-and-leaf display of a set of test scores.
What is the interquartile range of these test scores?
The numbers in the "stem" of this display represent tens digits of the test scores, and the numbers in the "leaves" represent the units digits. This stem-and-leaf display represents twenty scores.
The interquartile range is the difference of the third and first quartiles.
The third quartile is the median of the upper half, or the upper ten scores. This is the arithmetic mean of the fifth- and sixth-highest scores. These scores are 73 and 69, so the mean is .
The first quartile is the median of the lower half, or the lower ten scores. This is the arithmetic mean of the fifth- and sixth-lowest scores. Both of these scores are the same, however - 57.
The interquartile range is therefore the difference of these numbers:
Example Question #1 : Calculating Range
Consider the data set .
What is its midrange?
The midrange of a data set is the arithmetic mean of its greatest element and least element. Here, those elements are and , so we can find the midrange as follows: