Standard Form 1. Express the following, in standard form: (a) (i) (ii) 980, 0.0014.

(b) Hence, evaluate 980 0.0014, giving your answer in standard form. 2. Express (i) (ii) 0.00052 in standard form, 3.468 104 in ordinary notation.

3. Evaluate each of the following, without the use of a calculator, giving your answer in standard form. (a) 2.64 1018 5.8 1019, (b) (2.88 107) (4 107). 4. Write down the numerical multiplying factors of the following Greek prefixes. (i) pico (ii) nano (iii) micro (iv) milli (v) centi (vi) kilo (vii) mega (viii)giga (ix) tera 5. Write down the values of the following in standard form. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) 728.9 million 0.00431 million 22.56 billion 0.000843 billion 0.0341 trillion 8419 trillion

6. Rewrite the following numbers in standard form. (i) (ii) (iii) (3.50 103)2
3

125 10 9

47.1 104

65 103.7, using a calculator and leaving your answer correct to 3 significant figures. (v) 0.452 108 (vi) 621 103 (vii) 777 million (viii)0.0954 billion 4 625 trillion (ix) (iv) 7. Rewrite the following numbers in standard form. Give your answers correct to (a) three significant figures, (b) three decimal places. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) 60174 60109 600920 6009743

8. The capacity of a computers hard disk is 160 gigabytes. How many documents can be stored if the average size of a document is 2.85 megabytes? Give your answer correct to the nearest 100 documents. 9. Use a calculator to evaluate each of the following, giving your answers in standard form and correct to 5 significant figures.
3.5 10 7 + 584

(a)

3.478 5.34 10 4

(b)

47.6 2 8.74 3 0.35 7 + 0.026 8

10. (a) The speed of an electron moving around a nucleus is 2200000 m/s. Express this speed in megametres per hour. (b) The radius of a certain organism in the shape of a sphere is 3.5 nanometres. Calculate its volume, giving your answer in standard form and in cm3. 11. Express 2 102 cm3 as percentage of 4 102 m3. 12. The mass of a proton of an element is 8 105 times that of its electron. If the mass of an electron is 8.888 1031 kg, find the mass of its proton, giving your answer in standard form and correct to 4 significant figures. 13. (a) The approximate distance from the earth to the sun is 1.5 1011 m. Express this in gigametres.

(b) The approximate distance from the earth to the moon is 4 108 m. Express this in megametres. (c) Express in kilometres, the difference between the two distances. 14. Using information from the table below, Population Land area (km2) India 1.18 billion 3.29 million Australia 22.0 million 7.68 million Singapore 5.0 million 700

(a) find how many more people live in India than in Australia, giving your answer in standard form and correct to 3 significant figures, (b) calculate the average number of people per square kilometre living in Australia, giving your answer correct to 1 decimal place, (c) express, in the form 1 : n, the ratio of the number of people living in Singapore to the number of people living in India. 15. Evaluate

( 0.0457 ) 4 ( 3.965) 4 2 3 78.29 + ( 567.94)

, giving your answer in standard form and correct to 5

significant figures. 16. The word Googol is defined as 10100. If a man has ten Googol cents and a sports car costs $1550000, how many sports cars can he buy? Give your answer in standard form and correct to 5 significant figures. 17. Given that the number of atoms that can be packed into a space of 5 cm3 is 4.2 1024. How many atoms can be packed into a room measuring 4.5 m by 3.8 m by 2.98 m? Give your answer in standard form and correct to 3 significant figures. 18. (a) The diameter of an atom is 1/12 nanometre. How many atoms can be lined up on a line measuring 8.88 cm? Give your answer in standard form and correct to 4 significant figures. (b) The size of a cell of a living organism is assumed to be spherical with a diameter of 9 micrometres. How many cells are there in one layer of cells occupying an area of 5 cm2? (Assuming that there is no gap in between the cells.) Give your answer in standard form and correct to 4 significant figures. 19. Light travels 1 metre in 3.3 nanoseconds. (a) Express 3.3 nanoseconds in seconds, giving your answer in standard form. (b) The distance from the sun to the earth is 150 gigametres. How long does light take to travel from the sun to the earth? Give your answer in minutes and seconds.

20. Given that x = 3.4 105 and y = 8.2 1013, evaluate the value of answer in standard form and correct to 1 decimal place. ~End~

y . Express your x2