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@ cHapren t oman [7 Without using a calculator, write each of these as an integer or a fraction. 1 a) 2* b) 5? oa das ) 2 2 a)4xat b) 9x34 ©) 10x 10% ) 500 x 109 e) 1000 «10% 3 a) 27x39" b) 16x24 ©) 64x2* d) 4x2? @) 36x6* 4 a) 27x34 b) 16x2> o) 4x25 d) 4x24 e) 6x68 5 a) 29x25 b) 5*x5? Oo 2x24 d)#x4> e 2x Bx ESE Simplify the following. Give your answers as integers. la? b) 11° oF 2 a) 3 b) 10° os Using indices, find the value of each of these. Leave your answers in index form. 3 a) x5? b) 3°x3! O XE x6 4 a) 10+ 10° b) 5°45! oO 858) 5 a) 10x 10+ 10°) 3°x 3-43" Oo Pxgeat 6 a) 3'x 3843? x3! b) 5x 534+5%x5. ) 88x 8? + 89x 8 7 a) 4x4axaxs x5 b) 7X7XBX8X2K2K2 SX3K5RBKS 8 a) Bea b) 28 #43? @ Know the origins of the word algebra and its links to the work of the Arab mathematician Al'Khwarizmi. Use index notation for posit o integer powers; apply the index laws for multiplication and division to simple algebraic expressions. Construct algebraic expressions. Simplify or transform algebraic expressions by taking out single-term common factors. @ Add and subtract simple algebraic fractions, * : ° Derive formulae and, s, change the subject; use formulae from mathematics and other s Substitute positive and negative numbers into expressions and formulae, ‘The Arabs and the Moors brought mathematics from India to Arabia and then to south western Europe, where they lived in Al Andaluce in what is now Spain. ‘Mathematics was studied in great universities in Baghdad, Alexandria and in Granada in Spain. Among the many great mathematicians were Al-Karaji who worked on indices, square roots and equations and Abu Al-Wafa’ Buzjani who worked on geometry. Possibly the greatest was Muhammad ibn Musa AVKhwarizmi, who is called “the father of algebra’. He was born in Baghdad in 790ct and wrote the book Hisab al-jabr wo’al-rugabala in about 830 ce. The word algebra (al-jabr) comes from the title, which means ‘The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. He found solutions to quadratic equations and also wrote about Hindu-Arabic numbers. © cHarreR2 Index notation and algebra In Chapter 1 you used indices to work with numbers. The same laws of indices that you met there also apply to algebra. Laws of indices OP XBH=4K4KAKEKERG =4 (ie. 44) This can be written in a general form as: Notice that the base mumbers must be the same {for this rule to be true, axeaae X3X3X3XBxB esas axB =3 (e394) This can be written in a general form as: Again, the base munbers must be the same for this rule to be true. ae gaa © GY =G6x5)xGx5)x 6x5) =5* (.e.5%) This can be written in a general form as: (ay=a™ Worked examples Simplify px p* panse* $ b). Simplify zo « 2% ww =0 =w Sinnplify ('). (a? = nm) =m* ad Simplify gx gx gx hoch using indices. gxexgxhxh=g—xit EXPRESSIONS AND FORMULAE @ Een Simplify the following using indices. 1 axaxa 2 bxbxbxbxb 3 cxexexexexe 4 dxd 5 exexe Write out the following in full. 6 pt 79 8 rt 98 1 oe Simplify the following using indices. 1 axa? 2 xb 3 exexd 4dxd 8 Pxd xd 6 ese 7 gee 8 Went BEES Simplify the following. 1 (n'y 2 py 3 Fy 4 6) 5 ty 6 (uy? 7 wy 8 (xy Ea Simplify the following. 1 @xa! 2 Bab 3 dxded 4 Pxd

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