N-Q: Quantities

Quantities

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Quantities emphasizes the role of units in mathematical and scientific problem-solving. Choosing appropriate units, interpreting scales and origins in graphs, and selecting levels of measurement precision are the central skills. This domain treats quantitative reasoning as essential to setting up and communicating solutions, not just computing them.

N-Q.1Use units as a way to understand problems and to guide the solution of multi-step problems; choose and interpret units consistently in formulas; choose and interpret the scale and the origin in graphs and data displays.N-Q.2Define appropriate quantities for the purpose of descriptive modeling.N-Q.3Choose a level of accuracy appropriate to limitations on measurement when reporting quantities.
Example Problems
The average A of three numbers x, y, and z is .
Solve the equation for
.
I have a cockroach problem in my living room.

Don't ask how, but I counted
64 cockroaches today, and they are growing at a rate of 25% every day.

How many cockroaches will I have after
three days?
Estimating using a Maclaurin polynomial, what is the least degree of the polynomial that assures an error smaller than ?
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