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ALEKS MATH PLACEMENT EXAM
(LATEST UPDATE) QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWER S | 100%
CORRECT | GRADE A
Question 1: What is a positive number?
CORRECT ANSWER: Any number greater than zero
Question 2: What is a negative number?
CORRECT ANSWER: Any number less than zero
Question 3: What is a whole number?
CORRECT ANSWER: Any "counting number" or zero
Question 4: What is an integer?
CORRECT ANSWER: The whole numbers and their
opposites
Question 5: What is an even number?
CORRECT ANSWER: Any integer divisible by 2
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Question 6: What is an odd number?
CORRECT ANSWER: Any integer not divisible by 2
Question 7: What is a sum?
CORRECT ANSWER: The result of two numbers being
added
Question 8: What is a difference?
CORRECT ANSWER: The result of one number being
subtracted by another
Question 9: What is a product?
CORRECT ANSWER: The result of two numbers being
multiplied
Question 10: What is a quotient?
CORRECT ANSWER: The result of one number being
divided by another
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Question 11: What is a factor?
CORRECT ANSWER: A number that is multiplied to
form the product
Question 12: What is the Greatest Common Factor?
CORRECT ANSWER: The greatest whole number that
is a factor of two or more numbers
Question 13: What are multiples?
CORRECT ANSWER: The product of a number and a
counting number
Question 14: What is the Least Common Multiple?
CORRECT ANSWER: The least whole number that is a
multiple of two or more numbers
Question 15: What is a prime number?
CORRECT ANSWER: A number greater than one
whose only whole number factors are one and itself
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Question 16: What is a composite number?
CORRECT ANSWER: A number greater than one with
more than two whole number factors
Question 17: What are real numbers?
CORRECT ANSWER: All positive and negative
numbers and zero
Question 18: What are rational numbers?
CORRECT ANSWER: Any number that can be
expressed as the quotient of two integers
Question 19: What are irrational numbers?
CORRECT ANSWER: Real numbers that are not
rational
Question 20: How do you find percent increase or
decrease?