Session 4 Powers and Scientific Notation

1. In a little Chilean town there are four families dedicated to raise horses.
Each family has four horses. How many horseshoes do they have to buy
to shoe all the horses of the town?
2. A delivery truck gives the same request to 6 grocery stores that consists
of 6 boxes with 6 soft drinks each. It does this 6 times a week. How
many soft drinks does it deliver in one week?
3. The rubik cube is a three dimensional brainteaser invented by the
sculptor and architecture teacher Erno Rubik. According to the data
shown in the picture, answer the following questions:

a. What is the volume of the cube?

b. If we build a new rubik cube which edges measure twice the original,
how many rubik cubes could we keep in a square box of 16 cm?
Edge: it is the line that joins the sides of the cube
Volume of the cube: a3 where a represents the value measure of
the edge.
4. The speed of light can be measured dividing the distance from the sun
to the Earth (1.47

10 m) with the time that the sunlight takes to

2

reach the Earth ( 4.9 10

s). That means that the speed of light is

1.47 10m
4.9 10 s
How many meters per second is this formula equivalent to? Express the
result in scientific notation SCI 2
5. The light that travels approximately 3
around 5

10

10

km a second, takes

in reaching the Earth. What is the approximate

distance from the Sun to the Earth? Express its result in scientific
notation SCI 2.

6. If the light travels approximately 3

10

km in a second, how many

seconds does the light take in reaching from the Sun to Neptune? Use
mode FIX 2

7. The American citizen consumes an average of 36 kg of vegetables a

year. If there are 250 million Americans, how many kilograms of
vegetables are needed to supply them every year? Express the result in
scientific notation SCI 1
8. Pluto is approximately 3,574
could travel at 1,8

10

miles from Earth. If a space ship

10 miles per hour, how long would it take to

reach Pluto? Express its result in scientific notation SCI 1

9. One astronomical unit (AU) is defined as the average distance from the
Earth to the Sun (approximately 9.3

10 miles). The Halley Comet

approaches 0.6 AU to the Sun and gets as far as 18 AU. Express those
distances in miles as scientific notation, with SCI 2 for the first and SCI 3
for the second distance.
10.A carpenter wants to install 121 tiles in a square room. How many tiles
will he have to install in each side?

Multiple choices:
With the following statement, answer questions 11.12 and 13
Certain bacteria reproduces every hour 10 times more than the previous hour.
11.How many bacteria are there after two hours?
a. 10
c.
1,000
e.
100,000
b. 100 d.
10,000
12.How many bacteria are there after four hours?
a. 40
c.
1,000
e.
100,000
b. 100 d.
10,000
13.If there are 10 million bacteria, how many bacteria was there the
previous hour?

a. 100
b. 10,000

c.

100,000
d.
1,000,000

e.

10,000,000

14.Experts say that the growth rate of the world population is between 2%
and 4% annually. According to some research we know that in the next 8
years the growth rate is exactly 2%, which allows us to predict the world
population for next year multiplying the current world population by the
factor 1.02. If the population in 2009 was 6,730 million people, what is
the population by the end of 2013? Express the result in scientific
notation, SCI 3.

a. 7.28

10

c. 2.75

10

b. 7.14

10

d. 7.28

10

15.The thickness of a human hair is 2

e. 7.14

10

10 mm. One person has an

average of 9,000. What is the total thickness of the hair in millimeters?

a. 45
c. 360
e.
45,000
b. 180
d. 4,500
16.One person has a 10,000 m square farm. He wishes to plant trees
around it every 5 m, considering planting one in every corner. How
many trees will he need to surround his farm?
a. 20
c. 100
e. 8,000
b. 80
d. 2,000
Pablo buys a 120,050 m rectangular terrain, being the longest side the double
of the shortest side. Besides, it is known that every m costs 0.3 UF.
17.How wide (in meters) is Pablos land?
a. 141.45c. 245.00
e. 490.00
b. 173.24d.346.48
18.How long (in meters) is Pablos land?
a. 141.45 c. 245.00
e. 490.00
b. 173.24 d. 346.48
19.How much does Pablo pay for the land, in UF value?
a. 441.0 UF
c. 18,007.5 UF
e. 36,015.0 UF
b. 9,003.8 UF
d. 30,012.5 UF
20.Luis delivers bread in 8 parts of the city. In each zone he delivers bread
to 8 bakeries and in each bakery he delivers 8 kilos of bread and he
does it 8 times a day. How much bread does Luis deliver in 8 days?
a. 40
c. 4,096
e.
262,144
b. 512
d. 32,768
21.Juan buys a square piece of land that is 5,041 m. How long (in meters)
is the backside of the land?
22.Pedro wants to build a cubic shaped swimming pool that can contain
125 m of water. How deep (in meters) will the swimming pool be?
23.Camila has a rectangular cardboard with its length as twice as its width.
She has to cut the cardboard in two similar portions, as indicated in the

picture. If the total surface of the cardboard is 2,048 cm, what will be
the measurements of the portions of cardboard after cutting it?

24.Gabriela has a rectangular swimming pool, which volume is 384 m. Its

width is twice its depth and its length is three times its depth. How deep
is the swimming pool? (the volume of a rectangular shape is the
multiplication of its length by its width by its height.
25.A company decides to expand to 7 regions of the country, opening two
new branches in each region. To advertise the business, they put up 4
advertising billboards in each branch. Each billboard is square and has
an area of 11.56 m. Based on the data,
a. What is the measure of the side of the advertising billboard?
b. If the production cost of each billboard is $24,900, what is the total
amount invested in advertising by this company?
26.Luis has a gas delivery business. In each of his 7 branches 7 people
work for 7 daily hours. If each one dispatch 7 requests per hour, how
many requests altogether does Luis company do daily?
27.A tower is to be built with two square boxes. If you know that the
volume of each square box is 32,768 cm, how high is the tower if 50
similar boxes are piled up?
28.Gabriel was given a gigantic dice and he was told that is volume is
1,331 cm. How many cm is each edge of the dice?
29.An insect weights 1,32

10 kg. There is an animal that weights 415

times the weight of this insect. What is the weight of this animal
expressed in scientific notation? SCI 3
30.Marcela needs to inform her 30 classmates that there will be no classes
and to do so, she decides to make a telephone chain. She calls two
classmates and she asks them to call two more friends and that each
one of these should call another two and so on, until everyone is
informed. How many classmates will be the last ones to find out and will
not have to call any other classmate?
Based on the following statement, answer questions 31 and 32
In a call center people work for 8 daily hours and it is estimated that the
registered calls in one day quadruple every hour. During the first hour of work,
4 calls are answered. According to this information:
31.How many calls have been answered in the fifth hour after having
started the working day?
a. 20
c.
256
e.
4,096
b. 24
d.
1,024

32.What is the total amount of calls that the call center gets in a working
day?
a. 87,380 c.
65,536
e.
32
b. 87,376 d.
21,884
Based on the following statement, answer questions 33,34 and
35
Carlos signed a service contract with a telephone company for his house
that has a monthly cost of $27,900. Because of the good service that he had
and the good plan that he signed for, he decides to call two of his friends to tell
them about his new telephone plan. His two friends, who went to the branch
and got the same benefits that Carlos got, decided to call two other friends and
to promote such good service. All the friends that were contacted decided to
continue with the chain started by Carlos. The chain of contacts ends in the
eighth stage. According to the information provided:
33.How many people signed for the telephone services in the eighth stage
of the process started by Carlos?
a. 16
b. 64
c. 128
d. 256
e. 512
34.What is monthly total income of the company after having signed all
these new contracts?
a. $14,256,900 c. $7,254,000
e.$2,380,800
b. $14,229,000
d. $7,142,400
35.One of the questions asked to the people that signed for this service is:
How did you get the information? When the sales executives realized
that Carlos started the process, they decided to give him a $20 discount
in the next month bill for every new signed contract. How much was
discounted from his bill?
a. $2,048
c. $5,120
e. $10,220
b. $4,096
d. $10,200
36.A wine cava has a capacity of 4.8

10 cc. Some bottles with a

capacity of 800 cc are to be filled up. How many bottles can be filled up?
a. 60
c. 6,000
e. 384,000
b. 600
d. 38,400
37.It is calculated that in the Milky Way there are 1.2

10 stars

approximately. If we count one star per second, how many years would
it take to count all the stars? FIX 1
a. 1,22.6
c. 2,467.7
e. 3,805.2
b. 1,902.6
d. 3,333.0
Based on the following statement answer questions 38 and 39
A square wall which area is 31.36 m is to be painted in an office. The painter
that was hired for the work needs to put some adhesive protective tape
surrounding the wall.

38.How many meters of tape will he need to protect the four sides of the
wall?
a. 5.60
c. 22.40
e. 62.72
b. 15.68
d. 31.36
39.If the cost of one meter of tape is $545, how much will he have to pay
for all the tape that he needs?
a. $3,052
c. $12,208
e. $34,182
b. $8,546
d. $17,091
40.How can the following statement be expressed as a power? Pedro
walks the fourth part of the fourth part of the fourth part of the trip that
he makes by bus.
a.

1
4

b.

1 1 1
+ +
4 4 4

b.

( 14 )

d.

( 14 ) ( 14 )

e.

( 34 )

ANSWERS
3

1)

4 =64

2)

4 =1,296

horseshoes

softdrinks

3) a) 4 =64 cm

b) 8 cubes

4) The

of

speed

3 108

light

is

m
s

5) The distance is

is

1.5 10 km
6) 14.97 seconds
7) The amount is is

9 109 kg

2 105 hours

8)

9) Between
and is
10)
11)
12)
13)
14)

is

29)
7

5.6 10

1.67 10
11 tiles
b)
d)
d)
a)

15)
b)
16)
b)
17)
c)
18)
e)
19)
e)
20)
d)
21)
The backside is 71 m
long
22)
5 meters deep
23)
Two 32x32cm squares
24)
4 meters deep
25)
a) The side is 3.4 m
long b)$1,394,400
26)
2,401
27)
1,600 cm=16m
28)
11cm

miles

miles

30)
31)
32)
33)
34)
35)
36)
37)
38)

5.48 10
16
d)
e)
d)
e)
d)
c)
e)
c)

kg

39)

c)

40)

b)

41)
42)
43)