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Standard form worksheet — GCSE Foundation
Fifteen questions on "standard form" — DfE statement N9. Print it, or print three versions so neighbours cannot copy by letter; the key gives the letter for each version.
Standard form worksheet — GCSE Foundation
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- 1.Work out (5 × 10⁴) ÷ (2 × 10⁻²). Give your answer in standard form.
- 2.Write 5,000,000 in standard form.
- 3.Work out (3 × 10²) × (2 × 10⁵). Give your answer in standard form.
- 4.Write 0.005 in standard form.
- 5.A space probe is 7.5 × 10⁸ km from Earth. Write this distance as an ordinary number.
- 6.The diameter of an artificial silk fibre is 4 × 10⁻⁶ metres. One nanometre is 10⁻⁹ metres. Work out the diameter of the fibre in nanometres.
- 7.Work out (4 × 10³) × (3 × 10¹). Give your answer in standard form.
- 8.A red blood cell has a diameter of about 7 × 10⁻⁶ metres. A virus has a diameter about 100 times smaller. Work out the diameter of the virus. Give your answer in standard form.
- 9.Write 45,000 in standard form.
- 10.In standard form, 2,000 is written as 2 × 10ⁿ. Write down the value of n.
- 11.Which of these is written correctly in standard form?
- 12.Write 260,000 in standard form.
- 13.3.4 × 10⁵ is written as an ordinary number. Work out this number.
- 14.A company's turnover is 5.6 × 10⁷ pounds, spread evenly across 3.5 × 10² shops. Work out the average turnover per shop, in standard form.
- 15.The population of a planet is 8 × 10⁹. Write this population as an ordinary number.
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