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Practice for Quiz #1

Directions: These types of problems will appear on Friday’s quiz. Make note of the
Standards --- these are our words for describing the important concepts in our class.
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Standard #1. Translate numbers from non-Hindu-Arabic systems into decimal form
and back. [the Hindu-Arabic system uses the symbols 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0]

Write this number in decimal form. Write the number 2010 in the Mayan
number system. Explain your work.

Standard #2. Perform operations on numbers in alternate bases.

Perform these operations on numbers in Perform these operations on numbers in

base 6. base 20.

4 + 15 [13 : 0 : 19] + [11 : 0 : 1]

413 + 22 [10 : 10 ] + [ 4 : 7 : 14]

23 – 14 [19 : 10] – [13 : 1]

240 – 52 [ 7 : 7 ] – [ 5 : 15 ]
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Standard #3. Determine patterns in a sequence of numbers by performing
operations on successive pairs.

What patterns are in the sequence What patterns are in the sequence

81, 72, 63, 54, 45, … ? 1, 7, 49, 343, 2401, … ?

What are the next three terms of this

sequence? (term means number in this
context)

Represent the number 100000 using the

sequence terms above as base values in a
number system.

Base 10 number: 100000

s 2401s 343s 49s 7s 1s

th
What would the 10 term of this
sequence be? Explain how you found it.