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This document provides definitions and examples of different types of numbers including natural numbers, integers, irrational numbers, and prime numbers. It then presents word problems and exercises involving factors and multiples, prime factorizations, exponents, and roots. The exercises ask students to identify number types, find highest common factors, lowest common multiples, write numbers as products of prime factors, and evaluate expressions involving exponents and roots.

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Factors, Multiples, Primes WS 1

This document provides definitions and examples of different types of numbers including natural numbers, integers, irrational numbers, and prime numbers. It then presents word problems and exercises involving factors and multiples, prime factorizations, exponents, and roots. The exercises ask students to identify number types, find highest common factors, lowest common multiples, write numbers as products of prime factors, and evaluate expressions involving exponents and roots.

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Subject : Extended Maths


Term/Year : 1 / 2023
Worksheet No. : 1.1
Name: ____________________ Class : ____________ Date :

1.1 Factors and Multiples, Prime Factors, Powers and Roots

Real Number – any number that we use (positive, negative, large, small, whole numbers, decimal, fractions)

Irrational Number – a real number that cannot be written as a simple fraction

Natural Number – any whole number from 1 to infinity (0 is not included)

Integer – positive or negative whole numbers

Factors – numbers that divide exactly into another number


e.g., Factors of 15 are 1, 3, 5 and 15

Multiples – numbers in its multiplication table


e.g., Multiples of 6 are 6, 12, 18, 24,… etc

Prime Number – a number that has exactly two factors


e.g., 5, 37, 41

Highest Common Factor & Lowest Common Multiple Worded Problems

Product of Prime Factors

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Part A: Number Types

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Here is a set of numbers: { −4, −2.5, −1, 0, , 0.75, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 16, 19, 25, 27, 𝜋, √2 }
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List the numbers from this set that are:

a) natural numbers b) even numbers

c) odd numbers d) integers

e) negative integers f) fractions

g) square numbers h) prime numbers

i) cube numbers j) neither square nor prime

k) irrational numbers

Part B : Multiples and Factors

1) Find the highest common factor of 84 and 60. 2) Find the highest common factor of 120 and 216.

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*3) Find the highest common factor of 8, 32, 44. 4) Find the lowest common multiple of 14 and 21.

5) Find the lowest common multiple of 24 and 42. *6) Find the lowest common multiple of 8, 10 and 12.

7) A piece of rope can be cut into an exact number of 8) A light flashes every 15 minutes. A second lights
6m lengths. The rope could also be cut into an exact flashes every 18 minutes. Both lights flash together at
number of 8m lengths. What is the shortest possible 2am. What will be the time when they next flash
length of the rope? together?

9) Ms Sanchez has 40 canvases and 100 tubes of paint to 10) A radio station runs a phone-in competition for
give to the students in her Art group. What is the largest listeners. Every 30th caller gets a free airtime voucher
number of students she can have if she gives each and every 120th caller gets a free mobile phone. How
student an equal number of canvasses and an equal many listeners must phone in before one receives both
number of tubes of paint? an airtime voucher and a free phone?

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Part C: Prime Factors, Powers and Roots

1) Circle the numbers which are prime.

11, 17, 21, 35, 47, 63, 69, 72, 73, 81, 91

2) Write 250 as a product of prime factors. *3) Write 2210 as a product of prime factors.

4) Work out the following. You may use a calculator to check your answers.
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a) 4 = 64 b) 10 = 1000

c) 3 × √81 d) 23 × √16

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e) √−27 × √64 f) 102 ÷ −√25

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g) (−3)2 × √49 h) * √9 × √−125 × √−1000

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5) Use the product of prime factors given below to find 6) Use the product of prime factors given below to find
the square root of each number. Show your working. the cube root of each number. Show your working.
a) 324 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 a) 729 = 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3

b) 225 = 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 5 × 5 b) 1000 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 5 × 5 × 5

c) 784 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 7 × 7 c) 2197 = 13 × 13 × 13

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