SAT Power Vocab - Princeton Review

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list RATE


In  word    problems,   average speed   is  simply  another way of  saying  “rate.”

RATIO a comparison of “parts” to “parts”


Example:    In  order   to  make    fruit   punch,  Debra   needs   2   parts   orange  juice   to  every   5

parts   pineapple   juice.  The ratio   is   ,  or  0.4.

REAL NUMBER any number that is not imaginary


RECIPROCAL the inverse of a number (when you flip the numerator and denominator)


Example: is the reciprocal of .


RECTANGLE Rectangles are special parallelograms; therefore, any fact about parallelograms
also applies to rectangles. Rectangles have the following properties:



  • Each of the four angles are equal to 90 degrees.

  • area = length × width = lw

  • perimeter = 2(length) + 2(width) = 2l + 2w

  • The diagonals are equal.


REMAINDER the number left over after dividing


Example:    When    10  is  divided by  8,  the remainder   is  2.

REVENUE in word problems, a word that means “total money earned”


SCATTERPLOT a set of data represented on a graph by multiple dots, typically forming a
linear pattern

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