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Standard Form - Real World Problems - 2

This document contains a math assessment with questions about planets and standard form. It includes tables with data on planets' masses, distances from the sun, and questions calculating the heaviest planet, nearest to the sun, number of cars to reach Neptune, Uranus's volume and density, and time for light to travel from the sun to Uranus.

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Standard Form - Real World Problems - 2

This document contains a math assessment with questions about planets and standard form. It includes tables with data on planets' masses, distances from the sun, and questions calculating the heaviest planet, nearest to the sun, number of cars to reach Neptune, Uranus's volume and density, and time for light to travel from the sun to Uranus.

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Standard Form - Real World Problems

Name : Class : Date :

Mark : /5 %

1) Use the information in the table to answer the questions below [1]

Image Mass (kg) Distance to Sun (km)


Planet

26 9
Saturn 5 . 69× 10 1 . 43 ×10

26 9
Neptune 1 . 02×10 4 .5 × 10

27 8
Jupiter 1 . 9× 10 7 . 78 ×10

23 8
Mars 6 . 42 ×10 2 .28 × 10

a) Which planet is heaviest? ..........

b) Which planet is nearest the sun? ..........

2) Neptune is approximately 4,504,299 ,59 6 km from Earth. [1]


How many cars of length 3m could be placed end to end to reach Neptune from Earth?

Give your answer in standard form rounded to 3 significant figures.

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3) Uranus has a diameter of 5072400 0 metres. Calculate the volume of Uranus in m3, [1]
giving your answer in standard form to 3 decimal places.
4
Note that the formula for volume of a sphere is V ¿ π r ¿ 3 where r is radius.
3

4) Uranus is approximately 2.87098924 × 109kilometres from the Sun. Calculate the time is [1]
would take light to travel from the Sun to Uranus, giving your answer to the nearest
minute.
Note that the speed of light is 2.99792458 ×10 8 metres per second.

5) Uranus has a mass of 8.682 ×1025 kg and a volume of 6.833 ×10 22m ¿ 3. [1]
Calculate the density of Uranus, giving your answer to 3 decimal places.
Note that density is found by dividing mass (g) by volume (cm ¿ 3).

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Solutions for the assessment Standard Form - Real World Problems

1) a) Jupiter, b) Mars 2) 1.5 ×1012

3) 6.833 ×10 22 m3 4) 160 minutes

g 3
5) 1.271 m
c

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