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0606 Indices and Surd

This document provides examples and explanations of indices and surds. It includes the laws of indices, simplifying expressions with indices, and solving equations involving indices and surds. There are 26 example problems for students to work through involving operations with indices and surds such as multiplication, division, raising to powers, and taking roots.

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0606 Indices and Surd

This document provides examples and explanations of indices and surds. It includes the laws of indices, simplifying expressions with indices, and solving equations involving indices and surds. There are 26 example problems for students to work through involving operations with indices and surds such as multiplication, division, raising to powers, and taking roots.

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IGCSE ADD MATH 0606

Indices and Surds


m
Indices are used to describe the general term with a power. For an example: a ; a is called the base and m is the power.
The power is also often referred to as the “the index” or “the exponent”. Indices rules only apply when the base values are
the same.
The laws of indices

Simplify the following expression:


1 2
16 4
9

3 4
343 16
81

5 6
512 32
243

1
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7 4 ×8 8 16 ÷4

9 125 ÷ 25 10 243 ÷ 81

11 27 × 9 12 32 ÷ 4

13 4 ×8 14 27 ×9

2
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15 3 p  (2 p ) =
2 2 2 16 (2 xy z )  (2 xy z ) =
2 3 2 2 3

17 (7 r ) 2  7 r 3 = 18 (3 y 2 ) 4  (9 y ) 1 =

19 1 20 1

1
( 4a )  a
2 2 2
(2 x y ) 4

3
= 1
=

2 1 2 2
2a (8 x y )

21 125 ÷ 625 22 64 ÷ 16

3
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23 128 ÷ 64 24 9 × 81

25 625 × 25 26 9 ÷ 81

27 Simplify the expression 28 Simplify


25 × 5 2 + 20(8 )
3(2 )

Solve the following equation.


1 4 a  32 2 3
p2  8

4
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3 4 = 512 4 9 = 243

5 25 = 625 6 16 = 64

7 243 = 81 8 125 = 625

9 7 =1 10 11 −1=0

11 
2 12 2 4 x  8 x 1  32
x 3
9

5
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13 (2 )  4
a 3 a 1
 16 14 9 y
 81
27 2 y 1

15 27 3 x 3 x2 16 7 8  49 x  343  x

9 x 4 6561

17 9 18 1

1
15 p  q  (3 p  5q )  x  2x
3 3
 1.
125

19 1024 = 8 × 16 20 32 × 625
=2 5
8 × 25

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21 3 243 22 4 × 125
= =2 5
3 27 25 × 16

23 9 × 25 24 16 ÷ 25
=3 5 =2 5
125 × 81 125 ×4

25 16 × 243 26 243 × 25
=2 3 =3 5
81 ×4 125 ÷ 81

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