English and Scientific terms

Salah Jameel Jabrael

Quiz ; homophone; some mathematical terms

Quiz What is  homophone ? some mathematical terms Homework

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Salah Jameel Jabrael

Homophone

A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another word but is spelled differently and has a different meaning:

e.g. :

to/two/too

there/their/they're

pray/prey

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Salah Jameel Jabrael

some mathematical terms

Bias : A systematic (built-in) error which makes all values wrong by a certain amount.

Census :Collection of data from a whole population instead of just a sample.

For instance : doing a survey of travel time by ...

... asking everyone at school is a census (of the school). ... but asking only 50 haphazardly selected people is a sample.

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Salah Jameel Jabrael

Homework

Write some words which are pronounced the same but having different meanings.

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