Number Facts Flashcards
How do you find 1% of a number?
Divide it by 100
How do you find 10% of a number?
Divided it by 10
How do you find 50% of a number?
Halve it (divide it by 2)
How would we write the recurring decimal 0.4444444… using dot notation
0.4 with a dot above the 4
What is 0.33333…. (0.3 with a dot over the 3) as a fraction?
One third (1/3)
What’s 0.5 as a fraction?
One Half
What’s one eighth as a decimal?
0.125
What’s one quarter as a decimal?
0.25
Write 0.3 as a fraction
Three tenths
Write three quarters as a percentage
0.75
What decimal multiplier is used to increase a value by 4%
x 1.04
What decimal multiplier is used to decrease a value by 15%?
x 0.85
What decimal multiplier is used to decrease a value by 4%
x 0.96
What decimal multiplier is used to increase a value by 15%?
x 1.15
What decimal multiplier is used to increase a value by 0.6%?
x 1.006
What decimal multiplier is used to increase a value by 2.4%?
x 1.024
Evaluate 1000 to the power of one third
10
Using Index laws when we multiply two terms with the same base what do we do with the indices?
Add them
Using index laws when we divide two terms with the same base what do we do to the indices?
Subtract them
What is anything to the power of 0?
1
How do we find any number to the power of minus 1?
Take the reciprocal - one over the number
Evaluate 10 to the power of negative 2
1 / 100 = 0.01
In standard index form, numbers are expressed as a x 10 to the power n. What are the restrictions on a?
1 ≤ a < 10
In standard index form, numbers are expressed as a x 10 to the power n. What are the restrictions on n?
Must be an interger (negative integers are ok)
Why must 3.27 x 10¯³ be smaller than 1?
There is a negative power of 10
Why is 0.46 x 10⁹ not in standard form?
0.46 is not between 1 and 10