Indices - Scientific Notation - Surds

Question 1

What do you need to add powers?

Answer 1

The same base

Question 2

What do you need to divide powers?

Answer 2

Same base

Question 3

What do you do when dividing powers?

Answer 3

Top power - bottom power

Question 4

What does (a to the power of p) to the power of q mean you have to do?

Answer 4

Multiply powers

Question 5

What does a power of 0 always equate to?

Answer 5

1

Question 6

What do you do when you have a negative indice?

Answer 6

Invert

Question 7

What power does a number with no number have?

Answer 7

1

Question 8

What do you do when you have a product to a power?

Answer 8

Raise each part of the product to the power

Question 9

What do you do when you have a quotient to a power?

Answer 9

Raise each number of the fraction to the power

Question 10

What does a and m over n equal to?

Answer 10

Penomation squared to base (numerator)

Question 11

How do we solve equations with indices?

Answer 11

Get the same base number on each part of the equation, equate the powers and solve the resulting equation

Question 12

What does hence mean?

Answer 12

Using the previous answer you got

Question 13

What is the symbol for irrational numbers?

Answer 13

R/Q

Question 14

What are irrational numbers?

Answer 14

Numbers that cannot be fractions ,non-terminating and non-repeating decimals

Question 15

How do you solve a surd question?

Answer 15

ab squred= a squared x b squared or a over b all squared= a squared over b squared

Question 16

What does one number have to be in a surd equation?

Answer 16

Perfect square e.g. 9

Question 17

What is standard form?

Answer 17

A way to write very large or small numbers

Question 18

What does a in standard form have to be?

Answer 18

Including but not less than 1 and less than 10

Question 19

What does a positive power in standard form mean?

Answer 19

The answer is a large number

Question 20

What does a negative power in standard form mean?

Answer 20

The answer is a small number

Question 21

How do you add/ subtract in standard form?

Answer 21

Change each number to decimal form, add/subtract and change back to standard form

Question 22

How do you divide/multiply numbers in standard form?

Answer 22

Multiply/ divide the ‘a’ parts, multiply/ divide the 10 to the power of n and tidy up answer

Question 23

What happens if the number is less than 1 in significant numbers?

Answer 23

The zeros before and after the decimal part aren’t significant

Question 24

What happens if a part of the recipriocal is negative?

Answer 24

When it’s flipped, the whole fraction becomes negative