Practice Indices and Standard Form I 1.

(a) Without using a calculator, find the value of 26 24 28, expressing your answer in index form. (b) Simplify each of the following, leaving your answers in index form. (i)

(a )

2 5

a3

a 11

(ii)

(3 pq ) ( 2 p q ) ( 6 pq )
2 3 2 3 4

2. Without using a calculator, evaluate (a) 8 3 ,

4

(b)

25

3 2

3. Simplify each of the following, leaving your answers in index form. (a) p 6 p 3 p 2 , 4. (a) Simplify
5 1 1

(b)

( qr ) 2

q4 r4 .

p 3 p
4

p8

, leaving your answer in index form.

8 3 4
6

(b) Without using a calculator, evaluate 5. Solve the following equations. (a) 81x = 27, 6. Solve the following equations. (a)
x4 = 81 , 16

(b)

625 25 y =

1 . 125 y

(b)

2( 2 y ) =
3

625 . y

7. Express each of the following numbers in standard form, correct to 3 significant figures. (a) 123456000, (b) 0.00006789. 8. Express the following in standard form. (a) 150 gigabytes in bytes, (b) 9. Express the following in standard form. (a) 13.5 nanometres in metres, (b) 27 megawatts in watts. 285 microseconds in seconds.

10. Without using a calculator, find the value of the following, expressing each answer in standard form. (a) 6.8 105 + 8.1 105, (b) 2.3 108 6.7 107.

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11. Without using a calculator, find the value of the following, expressing each answer in standard form. (a) (2.2 103) (7 106), (b) (2.7 108) (5 105). 12. Using a calculator, find the value of each of the following, expressing your answers in standard form, correct to 3 significant figures. (a) 3.72 107 6.88 105, (b) (6.32 104) (3.31 106). End of Practice

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Homework Indices and Standard Form I 1. Evaluate the following, expressing each answer in index form. (a) 813 272 95 (b) 125 62 183 24 2. (a) Express your answer in index form, simplify p 4 q 8 pq 2 (b) Without using a calculator, find the value of index form. 3. Solve the following equations. (a) 82x = 128, 4. Solve the following equations. (a) (b)
9y = 27 . 33 y
243 . 32 y 3

) (
3

) ( p q)
3 4 3

1 2

54 3 36
4

72

, expressing your answer in

( 2x) 3
3

9 , 125

(b)

y2 =

5. Show that the expression 3 7n + 7n + 2 + 7n + 1, where n is a positive integer, is divisible by 59. 6. The mass of an electron is 9 1028 g. The mass of an atom of hydrogen is 1.6 1024 g. Expressing your answers in standard form, correct to 3 significant figures, find (a) the total number of electrons with a combined mass equivalent to 1 atom of hydrogen, (b) the number of hydrogen atoms in 1 kg of hydrogen. 7. An atom of carbon has a mass of 2 1024 grams. How many trillion atoms are there in 1 nanogram of carbon? 8. Without using a calculator, evaluate the following. Express your answers in standard form, correct to 3 significant figures. (a) (6.72 106) + (2.3 107) + (1.6 108), (b) (8.21 106) (9.11 107). 9. Without using a calculator, evaluate the following. Express your answers in standard form. (a) (1.2 103) (3 106) (5 105),
6.4 10 4 (b) (3.2 10 6 ) (8 10 3 ) .

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10. Using a calculator, evaluate the following. Express your answers in standard form, correct to 3 significant figures. (a) 2.81 106 + 7.22 105 1.11 107, (b) 2.87 104 6.33 108 1.08 1010. 11. Without using a calculator, determine which of the numbers 230 or 320 is larger. End of Homework

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