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1 Simplify .
Give your answer in standard form.

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[Total: 2]

2 Work out.

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[Total: 1]

3 Find the exact value of .

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[Total: 2]

4 Find the value of .

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[Total: 1]
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5 Find the value of

(a) ,

Answer(a) ................................................... [1]

(b) .

Answer(b) ................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

6 Find the value of

(a) ,

Answer(a) ................................................... [1]

(b) .

Answer(b) ................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

7 Write 0.00273 in standard form.

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[Total: 1]

8 Work out , giving your answer in standard form.

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[Total: 2]

9 Work out .

Give your answer in standard form.

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[Total: 2]

10 A company makes 40 600 headphones in one year.

Write this number

(a) in words,

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(b) in standard form.

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[Total: 2]
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11 Calculate .
Give your answer in standard form.

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[Total: 1]

12 Calculate .
Give your answer in standard form.

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[Total: 1]

13 Calculate .

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[Total: 1]

14 Write 0.000 057 4 in standard form.

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[Total: 1]

15 Write 270 000 in standard form.

Answer ................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]
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16 Use your calculator to find the value of 1.357.

Give your answer correct to 5 significant figures.

Answer ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

17 (a) Write 2.8 × 102 as an ordinary number.

Answer(a) ................................................... [1]

(b) Work out 2.5 × 108 × 2 × 10–2.

Give your answer in standard form.

Answer(b) ................................................... [2]

[Total: 3]

18 Solve.

Answer w = ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]
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19 (a) Write 569 000 correct to 2 significant figures.

Answer(a) ................................................... [1]

(b) Write 569 000 in standard form.

Answer(b) ................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

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Find the value of x.

Answer(a) x = ................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

21 Luc is painting the doors in his house.

He uses of a tin of paint for each door.

Work out the least number of tins of paint Luc needs to paint 7 doors.

Answer ......................................... [3]

[Total: 3]
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22
Without using a calculator, work out .
You must show all your working and give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

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[Total: 2]

23
Joseph spends of one week’s earnings to buy a jacket.
The cost of the jacket is $56.50 .

Calculate the amount Joseph earns in a week.

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[Total: 2]

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Without using a calculator, work out .
Write down all the steps of your working and give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

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[Total: 2]
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25 Without using a calculator, work out .

Write down all the steps in your working and give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

Answer ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

26 Without using a calculator, work out

Show all your working and give your answer as a fraction in its lowest terms.

Answer ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]
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27 One month, Gretal spent a total of $360 on presents.

She spent of this total on presents for her parents.

She spent of the remaining money on presents for her friends.

She spent the rest of the money on presents for her sisters.

Calculate the percentage of the $360 that she spent on presents for her sisters.

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[Total: 4]

28 By writing each number correct to 1 significant figure, find an estimate for the value of

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[Total: 2]

29 (a) 29 parcels each have a value of $68.

By writing each of these numbers correct to 1 significant figure, find an estimate for the total value of
these 29 parcels.

$ ................................................... [1]
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29 (b) Without doing any calculation, complete this statement.

The actual total value of these 29 parcels is less than the answer to part (a)

because ...................................................................................................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

30 By writing each number correct to 1 significant figure, estimate the value of .

Show all your working.

Answer ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

31 Write 1.8972 correct to 2 decimal places.

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[Total: 1]

32 Write 15.0782 correct to

(a) one decimal place,

Answer(a) ................................................... [1]

(b) the nearest 10.

Answer(b) ................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]