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Math Terms - 'R'


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Ratio - The relation between two quantities. Ratios can be expressed in fractions, decimals, percents or words. When your favorite baseball teams whens 4 games out of 5, the ratio is 4:5 or four out of five or 4/5.
Ray - A straight line with one endpoint. In the direction away from the endpoint, the line extends to infinity.
Range - The difference between the maximum and the minimum values in a set of data.
Rectangle - A parallelogram or four sided geometric shape that has four right angles (90 degree angles).
Repeating Decimal - A decimal with endlessly repeating digits. 5 divided by 3 will give a 1.6666666666666 forever.
Remainder - The number that is left over when a numerator cannot be divided evenly by the denominator. 5 divided by 3 leaves a remainder of 2.
Right Angle - An angle that measures exactly 90 degrees.
Right Triangle - A triangle with a right angle.
Roman numeral - A counting system using letters to represent numbers, where I = 1, V = 5, X = 10, L = 50, C = 100, D = 500, M = 1,000.



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