Teck Whye Secondary School

Secondary 1 Express
Inspiring Learning, Topical Assignment 1a 14
Empowering Lives

(1.1) Prime Numbers

(1.2) Square Roots and Cube Roots

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1 Explain why 33 is not a prime number.

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2 List all the prime numbers between 10 and 25.

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3 Written as a product of its prime factors, 1008  2 a  3b  7 . Find the values of a and b.

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4 Express 864 as a product of prime factors and give your answer in index notation.

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 (4) 2  (6  8)
5 Evaluate .
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64

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6 Written as a product of its prime factors, 1350  2  33  52 .

1350
Find the smallest positive integer k such that is a square number.
k

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7 Find 3375 by using prime factorisation.

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8 Without the use of the calculator, give an estimate of each of the following.
Show your working clearly.
(a) 80 ,

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(b) 215 .

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9 The area of a square plot of land is 529 m2. Find the perimeter of the plot of land.

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