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Splitting into equal parts You have 12 cookies and 4 friends. Hand them out one at a time going round the group until they're gone, and everyone ends up with 3. That's 12 ÷ 4 = 3. The ÷ symbol means divide, or share equally. Two questions,
Three ways to write one ratio A ratio compares two quantities. Two cups of flour for every three of sugar can be written: Same relationship, three notations. Pick whichever suits the question. Simplifying Divide both sides by their greatest
A negative number is less than zero. On a number line, negative numbers sit to the left of zero. Temperature below freezing is a good real-life example: −5°C is 5 degrees below zero.
State the ε–δ definition of lim(x→a) f(x) = L.1 / 11
For every ε > 0 there exists δ > 0 such that 0 < |x − a| < δ implies |f(x) − L| < ε. In words: f(x) can be made arbitrarily close to L by taking x sufficiently close (but not equal) to a.
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Mathematics · L4 · Calculus I — Limits & Derivatives
Putting groups together Some stories ask how many there are altogether. Watch for the words altogether, in total, or now. Maya has 4 apples and picks 3 more. To find how many she has now, add: 4 + 3 = 7. Taking some away Other stories ask h
What two pieces of information define a vector?1 / 8
A vector is defined by its magnitude (length) and its direction. It's often drawn as an arrow — the length of the arrow shows the magnitude, and the way it points shows the direction.
Comparing without measuring Long before a ruler, you can tell which of two things is longer just by lining them up carefully. That's called direct comparison. Place them side by side with one end lined up EXACTLY together, like two pencils
It's a way to find points on a line before you draw it. Pick a few x-values, plug each into the equation, solve for y, and you get (x, y) pairs you can plot.
Slope is a rate, not just a steepness It answers: when x goes up by one, what happens to y? Reading slope from a table No graph needed. Watch what the output does each time the input steps up by one. What the sign tells you Drag m below and