Botswana International University of Science & Technology

Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences

MATH 101 - PRE-CALCULUS, 2023/2024 SESSION

TUTORIAL 2 - THE REAL NUMBER SYSTEM

1. Evaluate the following.

2 1
(a) 140 (c) (−8) 3 (e) 81− 4
2
− 32
(b) (−243) 5 (d) 6−2 (f) 343
64

2. Simplify the expressions and eliminated any negative exponents

3 − 23 2
(a) 2x3 y 2 3xy 4


243x10 (8x3 y 3 ) 3

(d) (g) 1
4
32y 15 (x4 y −4 ) 4
 a  3 b2 a
 
 2 5  3 2 3
(b) a ab  −2 −3 −3
xy z
b c (e) (h)
b c3 x2 y 3 z −4
2 4 8
 4 2   3 2 2
(x ) x xx 2x y
(c) 4 3 2 (f)
x (x )x 4y 5 z3

3. For any real number a, find the simplified value of:

 
2(2a−3) + 3 2(2a−6)
2(1−a) [2(3a+1) − 8(a−1) ]

4. Simplify the expression

√ √ √
5
√
5
√ √
(a) 32 + 18 (c) 396 + (e) 16x + x5
√ √ √4
√
4
p √
(b) 75 + 48 (d) 48 − 3 (f) 3 23 y 4 − 3 y

5. Simplify the expression and eliminate any negative exponents(s). Assume that all letters
denote positive numbers.
√
p p p p q
(a) 6 y 5 3 y 2 (d) 4xy 3 6 x3 y 2
√
√
(f) x x3
3 4
(b) 5 a 2 a s
2 4
√
3 128x y
3
√
√ 
(e) 8x3
(c) 2 a
3
a 2
4x5 y (g) √
x

6. Simplify the expressions where x, y, z, a and n are integers;

1
 xa 52n+1 · 32n−3 2x − 2x−1
(a) (xy)xn · (e) (i)
xn 152n 3 · 2x − 4 · 2x−3
−3 √
(x−2 ) 8n · 6n−3 · 91−n x+4 x+4
(b) (f) (j) √
1 −3 x+2


x2 16n−1 · 3−n
9x − 4y
x3 y 2 z (g) 4x − 4x+1 (k) 1 1
(c) 3x 2 + 2y 2
xy 2 z 3

12 (3n )2 + 32n−1 23x+1
2
(d) x + 2xy + y 2 (h) (l) x+1
9n 2