STANDARD FORM AND PRIME FACTOR NOVEMBER 2005 – 2007 PAPER 1

1. N05/Q5 [ 2 Marks ]

The population of a country is There are children.

a. What fraction of the whole population are children?

b. Find the number of adults. Give your answer in standard form.

2. N05/Q18a [ 1 Mark ]

The number 3002.05 can be written as

Given that x and y are integers, find the values of x and y

3. N06/Q5a [ 1 Mark ]

Write the following numbers in order of size, starting with the smallest.
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4. N06/Q8 [ 3 Marks ]

Written as the product of its prime factors,

a. Write 108 as the product of its prime factors.

b. Find the lowest common multiple of 108 and 360.

Give your answer as the product of its prime factors.

c. Find the smallest positive integer such that is a cube number

5. N07/Q3b [ 1 Mark ]

Write the following numbers in order of size, starting with the smallest.

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6. N06/Q10 [ 3 Marks ]
The distance from the Earth to the Sun is e kilometres, where

The distance from the Sun to Mercury is m kilometres, where

a. Express as the ratio of two integers in its simplest form.

b. The diagram shows when the Earth, the Sun and Mercury are in a straight line,

with the Sun between the Earth and Mercury.

Find the distance from the Earth to Mercury. Give your answer in standard form.

7. N07/Q12 [ 3 Marks ]

a. When an object is falling, the air resistance varies as the square of the speed.

At a certain speed, the resistance is 30 newtons

What is the resistance at twice this speed?

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b. y is inversely proportional to x.

Given that y = 6 when x = 4, find the value of y when x = 3

8. N07/Q17 [ 4 Marks ]

a. It is given that and

Expressing your answers in standard form, find

i. ii. √

b. The numbers and , written as the products of their prime factors, are

225

i. Write 2250 as the product of its prime factors

ii. Find the smallest positive integer value of for which is a multiple of 540