Mental Math 7

Power and Exponents

General Questions
1) What is the exponential form of 100000 ?
a) 102 b) 103 c) 105 d) 106
2) What is the exponential form of 81 ?
a) 34 b) 33 c) 32 d) None of these
3) What is the value of (-2)3
a) 8 b) -8 c) 6 d) -6
4) What is the value of 32 x 33?
a) 35 b) 34 c) 36 d) 33
5) What is 28 ÷ 24?
a) 4 b) 24 c) 23 d) 25
6) What is (-4)4?
a) -256 b) 256 c) -64 d) 64
7) What is (52)3?
a) 55 b) 56 c) 54 d) 53
8) What is 20 x 30 x 40?
a) 1 b) 3 c) 24 d) 0
9) What is 30 + 40 +60?
a) 1 b) 3 c) 13 d) 0
10) Which of the following is true?
(a) 20 = (100)0 (b) 102 × 108 = 1016 (c) 22 × 33 = 65 (d) 23 > 32
11) What is 28÷ (22 x 23) ?
a) 22 b) 23 c) 224 d) 1
12) What is the value of (-1)37 ?
a) 1 b) -1 c) 0 d) None of these
13) Express 90, 00, 000 in the standard form.
a) 9 x 105 b) 9 x 106 c) 9 x 104 d) 9 x 103
14) What is the standard form of 15260000 ?
a) 15.26 x 106 b) 1.526 x 107 c) 152. 6 x 105 d) 1.526 x 10 9
15) What is (315 ÷ 310) × 35?
a) 325 b) 330 c) 310 d) 35
16) What is exponential form of 512 x 729 ?
a) 36 x 28 b) 35 x 29 c) 36 x 210 d) 29 x 36
17) What is the single exponential form of 33 x 53 ?
a) (3x5)3 b) 3353 c) 83 d) 156
18) What is the value of m if (2/3)2 x (2/3)3 = (2/3)2m-1?
a) 7/2 b) 3 c) 1 d) 0
19) What is [ (-1/3)3]2?
a) (-1/3)5 b) (1/3)5 c) (-1/3)6 d) (-1/3)5
20) What is the cube of (-2/3) ?
a) -8/27 b) 8/27 c) -4/9 d) 4/9
Higher Order Thinking Skills
1) Express 1728 as an exponent of it prime factors.
2) If 3⁴ – 5² = 7 x 2a. Find the value of a.
3) Express 9 x 81 x 27³ x 35 as a single base and an exponent.
4) The number 576080 when expressed in standard form is 5.7608 x 10m. What is the value of
m
5) What is the usual form of the number 8 x 105 + 9 x 104 + 6 x 103 + 5 x 102 + 4 x 10 + 9

Answer 1) 26 x 33 2) 4 3) 320 4) 5 5)896549

Brainstorming
1) When -1 is raised to an odd power the result will always be negative or positive?
2) Which of the following statements are true:
a) am x an am+n
b) ) am x an=amxn
c) (am)n= a m + n
d) (am)n= a m x n
3) Which of the following is equal to 1?
a) 40+50+60
b) 40 x 50 x 60
c) 40+ 50 - 60
d)( 4+5+6)0
e) 40 x 50 ÷ 60
4) Express 63/152 in simplest form.
5) Compare the following (-2)7 23
Answers 1) Negative 2) a and d are true 3) b,c,d,e 4) 24/25 5) <
Case Study
Rohan is trying to arrange his book shelf. He is planning to place 5 books and 5 paper sheets
in a stack. If each book has a thickness of 20 mm and each sheet has a thickness of 0.016 mm
a) Express the total thickness of the stack in standard form.
b) Express the total thickness of five books altogether in exponent form.

Answer: a) 1.0080 x 102 mm b) 102 mm2

Integrated Learning
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits at an average distance of 384,400 km
about 30 times the diameter of Earth. The diameter of the Earth is 12,800 km. The diameter
of sun is 1,400,000 kilometres. Hence, the diameter of the sun is about 109 times greater than
the diameter of the earth.
Express the numbers appearing in the above statements in the standard form:
(i) The distance between the Earth and the Moon is 384,400 km.
(ii) The diameter of the Earth is 12,800 km
(iii) Diameter of the Sun is 1,400,000 km.

(iv) The universe is estimated to be about 12,000,000,000 years old.

Answers i) 3.844 x 105 ii) 1.28 x 104 iii) 1.4 x 106 iv) 1.2 x 1010
Puzzle
Fill in the boxes using the whole numbers 1 through 9 to make the biggest 3 digit number.
Use each digit number at most once.

Answer: 36= 729