WORKBOOK 4.
Exponents
I. Choose the correct option:
1. Consider the following.
Reshma has been given a task to find the values of p and q. Which of the following could be the values?
a. p = 2 and q = 5 A b. p = 4 and q = 5 c. p = 2 and q = 25 d. p = 4 and q = 25
2. Anemia is caused by a deficiency of red blood cells, which are typically 0.000000007 mm in size. What is the
standard form?
a. 7.0 × 109 b. 7.0 × 10–9 A c. 70 × 10–9 d. 7 × 10–8
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3. The mass of an atom is 9.3 × 10 g. How many atoms are there in 1 kg of iron?
a. 1025 atoms b. 1026 atoms c. 9.3 × 1026 atoms d. 1.075 × 1025 atoms A
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4. In 15 days, the Earth picks up 1.2 × 10 kg of dust from the atmosphere. In how many days will it pick up
4.8 × 108 kg of dust?
a. 50 b. 40 c. 60 A d. 100
5. Mrs Emilda asked the students of her class to show the relation between mm and km using exponents.
These are the responses of four students.
Student 1: 1 mm = 10–6 km
Student 2: 1 mm = 10–5 km
Student 3: 1 mm = 106 km
Student 4: 1 mm = 105 km
Whose response is correct?
a. Student 1 A b. Student 2 c. Student 3 d. Student 4
II. Do as directed:
1. Represent in the exponential form.
2. Express (125)–3 as a power with base 5. ( )
3. Simplify using law of exponents. ( )
4. Simplify
5. Write 460.2759 in the expanded form using exponents.
460.2759 = 4 × 102 + 6 × 101 + 2 × 10–1 + 7 × 10–2 + 5 × 10–3 + 9 × 10–4
6. Find the value of x if x=1
III. Answer the following:
a. Express the thickness of a wire which is 0.0019 cm in the standard form. (1.9 × 10–3)
b. In a stack, there are 7 books each of thickness 20 mm and 7 paper sheets each of thickness 0.016 mm. What
is the total thickness of the stack? Express the thickness in the standard form. [U/A]
Ans: -Total thickness of the stack = (20 7) mm + (0.016 7)mm = 140 + 0.112= 140.112
c. Mass of the Uranus is 8.68 1025 kg and mass of Earth is 5.97 1024 kg. What is the total mass?
[U/A] 92.77 1024 kg
IV. Assertion and Reasoning
In each of the questions given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R).
Mark your answer as per the options provided below:
1. Assertion (A): The multiplicative inverse of am is a–m.
Reason (R): The multiplicative inverse of a number is defined as a number which when multiplied by
the original number gives the product as 1.
a. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A. Ans
b. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c. A is false but R is true.
d. A is true but R is false.
2. Assertion (A): 83 = 3
Reason (R): If the exponent of a base number is one, then the value of the base remains unchanged.
a. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
b. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c. A is true but R is false.
d. A is false but R is true. Ans
V. Case Study Question
Sara recently started a new job and earns a monthly salary of ` 3.8 104. She decided to donate of her
earnings to a charitable trust and allocated half of the remaining balance towards her father’s car loan.
Read the above case carefully and answer the following questions.
1. Find the amount Sara gave to the charitable trust.
a. ` 4200 b. ` 1500 c. ` 2000 d. ` 3800 Ans
2. How much amount did Sara pay as a car loan?
a. ` 27.1 × 104 b. ` 15100 c. ` 1.71 × 104 Ans d. ` 1.51 × 104
3. How much amount is left with Sara?
a. ` 1.52 × 103 b. ` 1.71 × 104 A c. ` 1.65 × 102 d. ` 1.75 × 102
4. Find Sara’s annual salary and write in the standard form.
a. ` 4.56 × 105 Ans b. ` 5.5 × 103 c. ` 4.56 × 104 d. ` 6.56 × 105
VI. Fun with math:
Complete the following crossword puzzle with the help of the given clues.
Across Down
(1) In xm × xn = xp , p is the SUM (3) The value of an if n = 0. ONE
of m and n.
(2) Very large numbers like (5) The value of EIGHT
6,250,000,000 can be conveniently (6) 57 is read as 5 raised to the
written using EXPONENTS. POWER of 7.
(4) Very small numbers can be (7) a–m is the MULTIPLICATIVE
expressed in standard form using inverse of am.
NEGATIVE exponents. (8) 1.24 × 10–4 is known as the
STANDARD form of 0.000124.
