{"id":31,"date":"2018-03-19T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=31"},"modified":"2024-04-26T21:59:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T21:59:52","slug":"introduction-to-whole-numbers","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/chapter\/introduction-to-whole-numbers\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Whole Number Calculations","rendered":"Introduction to Whole Number Calculations"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"wp-image-338  alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2985\/2018\/03\/17004048\/3556143493_c7fb92c7a6_o.jpg\" alt=\"A row of striped pool balls on a green pool table with numbers facing forward (10, 11, 12, 13).\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/>\r\n\r\nIf it has been a while since you\u2019ve studied math, it can be helpful to review fundamental topics. The most basic numbers used in math are those we use to count objects: [latex]1,2,3,4,5,\\ldots[\/latex] and so on. These are called the counting numbers, or natural numbers.\r\n\r\nWhole numbers are all non-negative numbers that have no fractional or decimal part: [latex]0,1,2,3,4,5,6,\\ldots[\/latex] and so on. Working with whole numbers lays the foundation for working with all other types of numbers.\u00a0 Using mathematical rules to manipulate whole numbers allows us to better analyze more complex numbers and data collected from the world around us.","rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-338  alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2985\/2018\/03\/17004048\/3556143493_c7fb92c7a6_o.jpg\" alt=\"A row of striped pool balls on a green pool table with numbers facing forward (10, 11, 12, 13).\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If it has been a while since you\u2019ve studied math, it can be helpful to review fundamental topics. The most basic numbers used in math are those we use to count objects: [latex]1,2,3,4,5,\\ldots[\/latex] and so on. These are called the counting numbers, or natural numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Whole numbers are all non-negative numbers that have no fractional or decimal part: [latex]0,1,2,3,4,5,6,\\ldots[\/latex] and so on. Working with whole numbers lays the foundation for working with all other types of numbers.\u00a0 Using mathematical rules to manipulate whole numbers allows us to better analyze more complex numbers and data collected from the world around us.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-31\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Whole Number Calculations. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Pool balls in a row. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: sacks08. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29071316@N06\/3556143493\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29071316@N06\/3556143493<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><li>Prealgebra. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: OpenStax. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/caa57dab-41c7-455e-bd6f-f443cda5519c@9.757<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17533,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Pool balls in a row\",\"author\":\"sacks08\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29071316@N06\/3556143493\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Prealgebra\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"OpenStax\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/caa57dab-41c7-455e-bd6f-f443cda5519c@9.757\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Whole Number Calculations\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"423440b4-346f-4436-865b-55b917e695f9","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-31","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":22,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31\/revisions\/2622"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/22"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}