WORKING WITH NUMBERS

EXERCISE 1A
Discuss what you need to know and be
able to do to answer these questions.
1. Why do you think the distance of
Venus from the Sun is written as
6
108 x 10 km whereas the distance of
Earth from the Sun is written as
149 600 000 km ?
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2. The time it takes light to travel 1 km is

-6
given as 3.335 609 x 10 seconds. Is this
a large or a small number?
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17a

3. Which planet is further from the sun,

Earth or Venus?
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4. How long does it take for light from the
Sun to reach Venus?
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EXERCISE 1 B
Find the value of
1
1. 4 __________________________
3
2. 5 __________________________
3
3. 10 __________________________
7
4. 2 __________________________
1
5. 10 __________________________

17b/18a

6
6. 10 __________________________

7. 1.2
8. 1.1

2
2

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3
9. 7.2 x 10 _________________________
2
10. 8.93 x 10

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11. 6.5 x 10 _________________________

3

12. 3.82 x 10 _______________________

1

13. 2.75x10 ________________________

5

14. 5.37 x 10 _______________________

1

15. 4.63 x 10 ________________________

2
16. 5.032 x 10 _______________________

18b

17. 7.09 x 10 _______________________

18. Write these numbers as powers of 10.
a. 100

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b. 1000 _________________________
c. 1000 000 _________________________
d. 10 000 000 000 ____________________

19. a. Use the information at the

beginning of this chapter to write down,
as an ordinary number, the distance of
Venus from the Sun.
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b. Now answer question 3 in Exercise 1A.

18c

20. Why do you think that the mass of the

30
Sun is written in the form 1.9 x 10 kg
and not as an ordinary number?
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21. The mass of the Earth is
24
5.98 x 10 kg. How many tonnes is this?
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22. A satellite is orbiting Earth at constant
speed so that it travels
4
2.8 x 10 kilometres each hour. How far
does it travel in one year, that is, in
3
8.76 x 10 hours ?

19a

EXERCISE 1C
5
2
1. 3 x 3 _________________________
5
3
2. 7 x 7 _________________________
2
8
3. 9 x 9 _________________________
2
7
4. 2 x 2 _________________________
4
3
5. 10 x 10 ________________________
3
2
6. b x b _________________________
4
4
7. 5 x 5 _________________________
4
5
8. 12 x 12 ________________________
9
8
9. 10 x 10 ________________________
6

10. p x p

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EXERCISE 2C
1. Two bags each contain 3 white counters and 2 black
counters. One counter is removed at random from each bag.
Copy and complete the following possibility space for the
possible combinations of the two counters.
1st bag

) (

) (

2nd bag
(

2. An ordinary six-sided dice is tossed and a 10p coin is tossed.

Copy and complete the following possibility space.

1
H

Dice
4

(H, 2)

10p coin
T

43b

(T, 4)

4. A top like the one in the diagram is

spun twice. Copy and complete the
possibility space.

1
1
2nd spin

2
3

44b

33. Place +, -, x, or in the space to make

these calculations correct.

a.

2
3

b.

3
4

c.

61g

4
5

4
5

8
9

2
3

5
6

2
3

7
= 1 15

34. Place < or > between each pair of

calculations.

a. 5 x

b.

1
34

1
2

5x2

3
5

1
34

3
5

35. The formula v = u + at is used in

physics.
Find the value of v when
u=

1
3
1
2 , a = 4 and t = 1 2

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61h

EXERCISE 6C
In each case find the size of the marked
angle( s ).

1.
1600
p0

1400

p0 = ______________________

118a

2.

700

p0

1100

p0 = ______________________

118b

13. Find AC

C
71 cm

98 cm

14. Find PR
R

37 cm

25 cm
Q
400a

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PART WORK: includes Chapters 1 to 13 and Chapters 17, 19, 21 and 22.
STP National Curriculum Mathematics Revised Pupil Book 8A
by L Bostock, A Shepherd, F S Chandler and Ewart Smith
Publisher Nelson Thornes; New edition (31 May 1996)
ISBN 10: 0748724400
ISBN 13: 9780748724406
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