1. Write in standard form (a) 1 760 000; (b) 0.000 055.

2.(a) How many square metres are there in 1 km2?

(b) How many square centimetres are there in 1 m2?

3. (a) How many cm3 are there in 1 litre?

(b) How many litres are there in 1 m3?

4. Work out the answer to each of the following. First do

it without a calculator, then use a calculator to check your
answer. Write your answers in standard form.
(a) 3 x 103 x 4 x 105. (b) 3 x 103 x 4 x 10-7.
8 X 105 8 x 10-2 1
(c) 2 x 102 (d) 2 x 10-7 (e) 2 x 105

5. For more practice, set up questions of your own

similar to those in question 4. Work them out, then check
each answer with a calculator.

6. What is the area of a square of side 0.06 m?

7. What is the volume of a cube of side 0.04 m?

8. Convert 3 mm into metres. Express your answer in

standard form.

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9. Try the follow conversions:-
(a) 0.5 km into metres.
(b) 25 cm into millimetres, and into metres.
(c) 120 s into seconds.
(d) 200 mg into grams, and into kilograms.

10. The mass of an electron is 9.1 x 10-31 kg. How many

electrons would be needed to make up one gram?

11. Convert one year (taken as 365.25 days) into

seconds. Give your answer in standard form, to 3
significant figures.

12. (a) Express 5.0 km in metres, in standard form.

(b) Light travels through air at a speed of 3.0 x 108
m s-1. If you shine a bright light towards an observer
who is 5.0 km away, how long will it take to reach him?
Give your answer to an appropriate number of figures.

13. Suppose you have your hair cut about every three
weeks (1.8 x 106 s), and that each time roughly 3 cm is
cut off.
(a) Convert 3 cm into metres, in standard form.
(b) Use the information above to arrive at the speed at
which your hair grows in m s-1. Express it in standard
form, to just one figure (because of the approximate
nature of the data).

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