STANDARD FORM

[ESTIMATED TIME: 75 minutes] GCSE

(+ IGCSE) EXAM QUESTION PRACTICE
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10. The table shows the populations of five countries.

Country Population
The Gambia 1.4 u 106
Kenya 3.2 u 107
Mali 1.2 u 107
Nigeria 1.4 u 108
Swaziland 1.2 u 106

(a) Which of these countries has the largest population?

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(1)

(b) Calculate the difference between the population of Kenya and the population of
Nigeria.
Give your answer in standard form.

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(2)

(c) The population of South Africa is 30 times the population of The Gambia.
Calculate the population of South Africa.
Give your answer in standard form.

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(1) Q10

(Total 4 marks)

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9 The table shows the diameters, in kilometres, of five planets.

Planet Diameter (km)

Venus 1.2 × 104
Jupiter 1.4 × 105
Neptune 5.0 × 104
Mars 6.8 × 103
Saturn 1.2 × 105

(a) Which of these planets has the smallest diameter?

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(1)
(b) Calculate the difference, in kilometres, between the diameter of Saturn and the
diameter of Neptune.
Give your answer in standard form.

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(2)

The diameter of the Moon is 3.5 × 103 km.

The diameter of the Sun is 1.4 × 106 km.
(c) Calculate the ratio of the diameter of the Moon to the diameter of the Sun.
Give your answer in the form 1 : n

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(2)

(Total for Question 9 is 5 marks)

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10 The table shows some information about the five Great Lakes in North America.

Name Surface area (m2) Volume of water (m3)

Lake Erie 2.57 × 1010 4.80 × 1011

Lake Huron 6.01 × 1010 3.52 × 1012

Lake Michigan 5.80 × 1010 4.87 × 1012

Lake Ontario 1.91 × 1010 1.64 × 1012

Lake Superior 8.21 × 1010 1.22 × 1013

(a) Work out the total surface area of the five Great Lakes.
Give your answer in standard form.

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(2)
Loch Ness is the largest lake in Scotland.
The lake has a volume of water of 7.45 × 109 m3
The volume of water in Lake Superior is k times the volume of water in Loch Ness.
(b) Work out the value of k.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

k = .......................................................
(2)
(Total for Question 10 is 4 marks)

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10 The table gives the surface areas, in square kilometres, of five seas.

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Sea Surface area in square kilometres
Mediterranean Sea 2.97 × 106
East China Sea 1.25 × 106
Baltic Sea 4.22 × 105
Red Sea 4.38 × 105
Okhotsk Sea 1.59 × 106

(a) Write 1.59 × 106 as an ordinary number.

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(1)
(b) Work out the difference, in square kilometres, between the largest surface area and
the smallest surface area for these five seas.

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Give your answer in standard form.

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(2)
The surface area of the East China Sea is k times the surface area of the Baltic Sea.
(c) Work out the value of k.
Give your answer to the nearest whole number.
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k = .....................................................
(2)

(Total for Question 10 is 5 marks)

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10. The table shows the annual world production of four foods.

Annual world
Food
production, in tonnes
Cocoa 1.75 u 106
Coffee 1.85 u 106
Sugar 9.72 u 107
Wheat 4.98 u 108
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(a) Calculate
The the total
capsules move in aannual world
circle of production
diameter 135 m.of coffee and sugar.

(c) Calculate the distance moved by a capsule in making a complete revolution.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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(2)

(b) Brazil produces 9.7% of the world’s sugar.

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Calculate the annual production of sugar from Brazil.
(2)

The capsules move at an average speed of 0.26 m/s.

(d) Calculate the time taken for a capsule to make a complete revolution.
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Give your answer in minutes, correct to the nearest minute.
(2)

(c) Express the world production of wheat as a percentage of the total production of all
four foods.

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(3)
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(3) Q10
(Total 9 marks)
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11. Write as ordinary numbers

(i) 3.6 × 105

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(ii) 2.9 × 10–3

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11. The distance between the Earth and the Sun is 150 000 000 km.
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(b) Calculate the distance between Neptune and the Sun.

Give your answer in standard form.

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9. (Total for Question 10 is 5 marks) [4 marks]

11 The table shows the population of each of three countries in 2012.

Country Population
India 1.21 × 109
Turkey 7.48 × 107
Singapore 5.2 × 106

(a) Find the total population of India, Turkey and Singapore in 2012.
Give your answer in standard form.

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(2)
Population density is calculated by the formula
Population density = Population ÷ Land area
The land area of India is 3.29 × 106 km2
(b) Calculate the population density of India in 2012.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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(2)

(Total for Question 11 is 4 marks)

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11 The table gives the populations of each of five countries in 2014

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Country Population
China 1.4 × 109
India 1.3 × 109
USA 3.2 × 108
Ethiopia 9.7 × 107
Mexico 1.2 × 108

(a) Write 9.7 × 107 as an ordinary number.

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(1)
The population of Russia in 2014 was 140 000 000

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(b) Write 140 000 000 in standard form.

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In 2014, there were more people living in China than were living in the USA.
(c) How many more?
Give your answer in standard form.

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In 2014, the population of India was k times the population of Mexico.

(d) Work out the value of k.
Give your answer to the nearest whole number.

k = ........................................................
(2)

(Total for Question 11 is 6 marks)

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12 (a) Write as an ordinary number

(i) 4.2 × 106

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(ii) 3.82 × 10–4

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(2)
(b) Here are three numbers written in standard form.
Arrange these numbers in order of size.
Start with the smallest number.

5.6 × 10–7 8.6 × 10–9 5.64 × 10–8

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The area covered by the Pacific Ocean is 1.6 × 108 km2
The area covered by the Arctic Ocean is 1.4 × 107 km2
(b) Write 1.6 × 108 as an ordinary number.

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The area covered by the Pacific Ocean is k times the area covered by the Arctic Ocean.
(c) Find, correct to the nearest integer, the value of k.

k = ........................................................
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(Total for Question 13 is 4 marks)

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(Total for Question 14 is 3 marks)

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18 (a) x = 9 × 102m where m is an integer.

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(b) y = 9 × 102n where n is an integer.
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(b) Calculate the value of P when Q = 20

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20 x = a × 10n where n is an integer and 10 ! a < 10
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