Ch 6: ASVAB Math: Factorials in Math
About This Chapter
ASVAB Math: Factorials in Math - Chapter Summary
Use this chapter to learn about factorials and their use when you're solving math problems. While you prepare for the ASVAB, you'll find the short and simple video lessons guide you through the world of factorials and various problem-solving processes. Subjects in this chapter include:
- The definition and usefulness of factorials
- Factorials formulas
- Factorial notation
Our subject-expert instructors have put together fun, engaging video lessons that will make learning factorials a snap! Study along with the formulas in the chapter transcripts and then test your skills with our guided self-exams.
ASVAB Math: Factorials in Math Chapter Objectives
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) tests a candidate for the U.S. Military's understanding of basic principles in several academic fields. This test can be taken throughout the year by anyone who is eligible to join the military but is mostly offered to high school students.
There are 25 multiple-choice questions in the paper-based Math Knowledge subtest that you will have to solve within 24 minutes.
A computerized version of the exam also exists, and it contains 16 questions and a 20-minute time limit. The Math Knowledge section includes some questions about factorials. This study guide is designed to teach you everything you'll need to know to answer those questions. After studying this chapter, you will be able to explain the definition of factorials, understand what they are used for, and demonstrate how to solve problems with factorials in them and use different factorial formulas.
1. What Is a Factorial?
Maybe it's because I'm a math teacher, but when I watched the Olympics I found myself thinking about how many different ways the swimmers could have finished the race. In this video, you'll learn the answer to this question, why it's important and how it lead to the invention of the mathematical operation called the factorial.
2. Factorial Practice Problems
While the definition of factorial isn't complicated, it's easy to make them trickier by throwing a lot of them together and adding in some fractions. Test your skills here with some algebraic examples that make you use factorials without many numbers.
3. How to Use Factorial Notation: Process and Examples
Watch this video lesson to learn about factorial notation. Understand what it means so that you can handle it like a pro. Also see what happens when we divide factorials.
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Other Chapters
Other chapters within the ASVAB Mathematics Knowledge: Study Guide & Test Prep course
- ASVAB Math: Basic Arithmetic
- ASVAB Math: Math Expressions and Formulas
- ASVAB Math: Solving Math Word Problems
- ASVAB Math: Rounding Numbers and Decimals
- ASVAB Math: Fractions
- ASVAB Math: Reciprocals
- ASVAB Math: Types of Numbers
- ASVAB Math: Patterns & Sequences
- ASVAB Math: Exponents
- ASVAB Math: Properties of Exponents
- ASVAB Math: Algebraic Expressions and Equations
- ASVAB Math: Factoring
- ASVAB Math: Quadratic Equations
- ASVAB Math: Working with Quadratic Equations
- ASVAB Math: Inequalities
- ASVAB Math: Calculating Interest
- ASVAB Math: Circles
- ASVAB Math: Geometry
- About the ASVAB Test
- ASVAB Mathematics Knowledge Flashcards
