Unit 1: Fractions and Decimals.

ACTIVITIES 1 - SOLUTIONS

Mathematics - 3 ESO

SOLUTIONS

Exercise 1 a) b)

Exercise 2 a) b) c)

IES Albayzn (Granada)

Pgina 1

Unit 1: Fractions and Decimals. ACTIVITIES 1 - SOLUTIONS

Mathematics - 3 ESO

Exercise 3 Compute

a)

) (

b) c)

[ [ (

)] ) ( ) ( [ (

] )] ] ) (

( [ ( )

) ( ) ( ) ) ( )]

d)

) (

) (

e) (

f) g) h)

) ( [ [

) ( (

) )]

) [

) ( ]

( ( ]

) )

] (

[ ) [ ( ( ) ) (

i)

) [ (

) ] ( )] )

) ]

j)

) (

k)

)]

IES Albayzn (Granada)

Pgina 2

Unit 1: Fractions and Decimals. ACTIVITIES 1 - SOLUTIONS

Mathematics - 3 ESO

Exercise 4
Each one of the following operations has one mistake. Highlight/circle and describe the mistake in words.

a)
The mistake is related to the order of operations (BEDMAS). The last thing you do is the addition and subtraction. The right solution would be:

b)

c)

The base is 3 and the minus sing is not affected by the exponent 2.

d) (

Because there are parentheses, this represents the associative property. This expression represents the conmutative property of multiplication: we can change the order of multiplication of natural numbers without changing the result.

The associative property of multiplication states that we can change the grouping of multiplication without changing the result. ( ) ( )

IES Albayzn (Granada)

Pgina 3