Operation with numbers worksheet

No 1-P2
A satellite travels around the Earth in a circular orbit 500 kilometres above the Earth’s surface.
The radius of the Earth is taken as 6400 kilometres.
(a) Write down the radius of the satellite’s orbit.

(b) Calculate the distance travelled by the satellite in one orbit of the Earth.
Give your answer correct to the nearest km.
k
(c) Write down your answer to (b) in the form a × 10 , where 1 ≤ a < 10, k  .

No 2-P2
S3
The volume of a sphere is V = 36π , where S is its surface area.
2
The surface area of a sphere is 500 cm .
(a) Calculate the volume of the sphere. Give your answer correct to two decimal places.

(b) Write down your answer to (a) correct to the nearest integer.
n
(c) Write down your answer to (b) in the form a × 10 , where 1 ≤ a < 10 and n  .

No 3-P1
Consider the following four numbers.
π
2 –2
p = 0.00314 ; q = 0.00314 × 10 ; r = 1000 ; s = 3.14 × 10
k
(a) One of these numbers is written in the form a × 10 where 1 ≤ a < 10 and k  . Write down this
number.

(b) Write down the smallest of these numbers.

(c) Write down the value of q + s.

k
(d) Give your answer to part (c) in the form a × 10 where 1 ≤ a < 10 and k  .

No 4-P2
d2
l2 
Given that h = 4 ,
(a) Calculate the exact value of h when l = 0.03625 and d = 0.05.

(b) Write down the answer to part (a) correct to three decimal places.

(c) Write down the answer to part (a) correct to three significant figures.
k
(d) Write down the answer to part (a) in the form a × 10 , where 1 ≤ a < 10, k  .

No 5-P2
77.2  33
2
(a) Calculate 3.60  2 .
 k
(b) Express your answer to part (a) in the form a  10 , where
1  a  10 and k .

(c) Juan estimates the length of a carpet to be 12 metres and the width to be 8 metres. He then estimates
the area of the carpet.
(i) Write down his estimated area of the carpet.

When the carpet is accurately measured it is found to have an area of 90 square metres.
(ii) Calculate the percentage error made by Juan.

No 6-P2
4 –7
If x = 3.1 × 10 and y = 2.4 × 10 , calculate the values of the following, expressing your answers in the form a ×
k
10 , where 1 ≤ a < 10 and k  .
(a) 2
x
x
(b) y

No 7-P1
7 8
Let x = 6.4 × 10 and y = 1.6 × 10 .
Find
x
(a) y
(b) y – 2x,
k
giving your answers in the form a × 10 where 1  a < 10 and k  .