Kutchum Secondary School Additional Mathematics M.

2 Unit 1 Property of Indices

Exercise 1.4 Standard form

2. 5,180,000

Name Class No. By...Mr.Praiwan Duangta

Write each of the following numbers in standard form: 1. 72,300 3. 39.6

4. 937.56

5. 100

6. 1,001

7. 0.369

8. 0.0008614

9. 0.000201

10. 0.000000015

11. 0.000234

12. 0.0000002112

Evaluate the following, leaving your answers in the form A 10n where 1 A 10 And n is an integer. 1. (3.5110 ) (2.53 10 ) 2. (8 10 ) (4.82 10 ) 3. (9.3 10 ) (7.3 10 )
5 5 6 6 6 6

4.

(6 103 ) (2.1 102 )

5.

(3.6 104 ) (5 103 )

6.

(7.7 101 ) (8 102 )

7.

(5.25 105 ) (3.2 104 )

8.

(9.3 106 ) (3.1104 )

9.

(2.08 109 ) (8 104 )

10.

7 108 3.5 106

11.

1.5 104 6 102

12.

3 106 12 106

 Solution 1. The speed of light is 3 x 108 m/s. The speed of sound is 300 m/s. How many times the speed of sound is the speed of light? Given your answer in standard form.

2. The population of Bangkok in given year was 5.9 x 106. Its total land area is about 1568.7 km2. What was the average population per square km in that year? Given your answer in standard form, correct to 2 significant figures.

3. When 1617 562 is writing a number as A x 10n where then n is equal to.

1 A 10

and n is an integer,

4. When

A 34 1613 550

is written as a single decimal number, How many digits of

5. When

444 587 A 10n

where

1 A 10

and

is an integer, find

A2 2 n

6. Office of the average of 6.4 103 bacteria per square centimeter. If the area is 27 square meters of meeting rooms, How many bacteria amounts of the meeting room ? Given answer in standard form.