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This document contains instructions and 23 multiple choice questions testing skills with indices and powers. Students are asked to simplify expressions involving indices, evaluate expressions by calculating powers and roots, find reciprocals, and write expressions as a single power. The questions are worth between 1-5 marks each for a total test score out of 60 marks. Students are advised to show their working, answer all questions, and watch the time allocated for the test.

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4 Indices

This document contains instructions and 23 multiple choice questions testing skills with indices and powers. Students are asked to simplify expressions involving indices, evaluate expressions by calculating powers and roots, find reciprocals, and write expressions as a single power. The questions are worth between 1-5 marks each for a total test score out of 60 marks. Students are advised to show their working, answer all questions, and watch the time allocated for the test.

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Name: ___________________________

GCSE (1 – 9)

Indices

Instructions

• Use black ink or ball-point pen.


• Answer all Questions.
• Answer the Questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
• Diagrams are NOT accurately drawn, unless otherwise indicated.
• You must show all your working out.

Information

• The marks for each Question are shown in brackets


– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each Question.

Advice

• Read each Question carefully before you start to answer it.


• Keep an eye on the time.
• Try to answer every Question.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end

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1 (a) Simplify x8 × x3

….......................…
(b) Simplify (5y) 3 (1)

….......................…
w 7 (1)
(c) Simplify
w4

….......................…
(1)
(Total for question 1 is 3 marks)

2 (a) Simplify a9 × a4

….......................…
(b) Simplify (4b c)2 3 (1)

….......................…
(2)
(c) Simplify d9 ÷ d4

….......................…
(1)
(Total for question 2 is 4 marks)

3 (a) Simplify 2m2 × 5n6

….......................…
(1)
(b) Simplify 15p 3 ÷ 3p 4

….......................…
(2)
(Total for question 3 is 3 marks)
4 (a) Simplify (t 3)4

…...…....................................…
(b) Simplify 12m²n6 ÷ 3mn4 (1)

…...…....................................…
(2)
(Total for question 4 is 3 marks)

5 Simplify 5m²n3 × 3mn4

…...…....................................…
(Total for question 5 is 2 marks)

6 (a) Write down the value of 5-3

….......................…
(1)
(b) Write down the value of 50

….......................…
(1)
(Total for question 6 is 2 marks)

7 Work out the value of 5² × 23

…...…....................................…
(Total for question 7 is 1 mark)
8 Write down the value of 2-3

….......................…
(Total for question 8 is 1 mark)

9 y² × ya = y7

(a) Find the value of a.

….......................…
(y4)b = y12 (1)

(b) Find the value of b.

….......................…
(1)
(Total for question 9 is 2 marks)

10 (a) Given x6 8
a
=x
x

Find the value of a.

a = ….......................…
(1)
(b) Simplify (2m²)⁴

….......................…
(2)
(Total for question 10 is 3 marks)
11 (a) Write 3 4 × 35 as a power of 3
2
3

….......................…
(2)
(b) Write down the value of 3-3

….......................…
(1)
(c) Write down the value of 30

….......................…
(1)
(Total for question 11 is 4 marks)

29 × 2−2
12 Work out the value of 4
2

….......................…
(Total for question 12 is 2 marks)

13 Work out the value of (22)3

….......................…
(Total for question 13 is 1 mark)
14 (a) Simplify p3 × p5

….......................…
(b) Simplify (4ab )2 3 (1)

….......................…
(2)
7 3
(c) Simplify 16m n
4m3n

….......................…
(2)
(Total for question 14 is 5 marks)

15 10004 = 10x

Find the value of x.

….......................…
(Total for question 15 is 1 mark)

3
16 Work out the value of 2 × 2
5
2

….......................…
(Total for question 16 is 2 marks)

17 Write down the reciprocal of 8

….......................…
(Total for question 17 is 1 mark)
18 (a) Simplify 9p3 × 2p-2

….......................…
3 2 3
(b) Simplify (5x y ) (1)

….......................…
(2)
(c) p3 × p5 = p12 × p y

Find the value of y

….......................…
(2)
(Total for question 18 is 5 marks)

19 10x = 1

Write down the value of x.

….......................…
(Total for question 19 is 1 mark)

20 Write 54 × 5 as a power of 5

….......................…
(Total for question 20 is 1 mark)

21 Write down the reciprocal of 2

….......................…
(Total for question 21 is 1 mark)
22 (a) Simplify 5c2d3 × 2d

….......................…
(b) Write 64 × 45 as a power of 4 (1)

….......................…
(2)
(c) Simplify p3 × ( p5)2

….......................…
(2)
(Total for question 22 is 5 marks)

23 p9 × p5 = px

Write down the value of x

….......................…
(Total for question 23 is 1 mark)

1
24 Write down the reciprocal of
3

….......................…
(Total for question 24 is 1 mark)

25 Simplify 10p3q5r
4p3q6

.................…..............…
(Total for question 25 is 2 marks)

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