ONCAMPUS Assessment Task

UFP Skills for Science – Engineering and Life Sciences

Academic Year 2020-2021

Assessment 1: Maths for Science

Answer all questions.

Total marks for this assessment: 46
This assessment represents 10% of your final module mark.
Please refer to the Assignment Brief for instructions on how your work should be
submitted.

Question 1
Write the following in standard form:

a) 457000 (1 mark)

b) 0.00000036 (1 mark)

c) 49 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 (1 mark)

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Question 2
Example: Express 1.3km in m giving your answer in scientific notation/standard form =
1.3 x 103m

Remember to state the correct units with your answers.

a) Express 230μm in cm giving your answer in scientific notation/standard form.

(2 marks)

b) Express 764MHz in mHz giving your answer in scientific notation/standard form.

(2 marks)

c) Express 0.53 km in pm giving your answer in scientific notation/standard form.

(2 marks)

d) Express 1.9 ηs in Ts giving your answer in scientific notation/standard form.

(2 marks)

e) Express 22Gm3 in mm3 giving your answer in scientific notation/standard form.

Show all your working. (3 marks)

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Question 3

For each of the following questions, make the letter in brackets the subject of the formula.
Show all your working out.

a) 𝑡 = 𝑄 − 𝑎 (𝒂) (1 mark)

𝑇 (𝑀−𝑎)
b) 𝐸
=𝐹 (𝒂) (2 marks)

𝐻 𝑁
c) =𝑀 (𝒂) (2 marks)
𝑎

d) √(𝐴𝑥 + 𝐵) = √𝐷 (𝒙) (3 marks)

𝑦+2
e) 𝑦 − 𝑛 = (𝒚) (3 marks)
𝑛

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Question 4

Complete the following table – writing each number to:

a) The nearest whole number

b) Three significant figures

c) Two decimal places (9 marks)

Number a) To the nearest b) To 3 significant c) to 2 decimal

whole number figures places
47.682

0.00345

0.5051

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Question 5
The number of empty parking spaces on a road are monitored over a period of 60 days. The
results are shown in the table below.

Extra columns have been included in the table that you may wish to use to help you with the
calculations.

Number of empty Frequency, f.

parking spaces, x
0 5

1 15

2 27

3 8

4 5

Total 60

a) Calculate the mean number of empty parking spaces. State your answer to the
nearest whole number of parking spaces. (4 marks)

b) Calculate the median number of empty parking spaces. (2 marks)

c) What is the modal number of empty parking spaces? (1 mark)

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Question 6

Polly has 50 rose bushes. She counts the number of flowers on 10 of them.

The number of flowers on each rose bush is:

9, 2, 5, 4, 12, 7, 8, 11, 9, 3

Find the standard deviation of the number of flowers on a rose bush. State your answer to 1
decimal place.
(5 marks)

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