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Mathematics 1 Holiday Homework

The document provides a list of 19 math problems for students to solve over their holiday break. The problems cover topics like estimating quantities, rounding numbers, significant figures, expressions, and solving equations. Students are asked to estimate quantities, round numbers to various decimal places, determine significant figures, express numbers in scientific notation, and solve various math equations.

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Mathematics 1 Holiday Homework

The document provides a list of 19 math problems for students to solve over their holiday break. The problems cover topics like estimating quantities, rounding numbers, significant figures, expressions, and solving equations. Students are asked to estimate quantities, round numbers to various decimal places, determine significant figures, express numbers in scientific notation, and solve various math equations.

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Mathematics 1 Holiday Homework

1. During a sale, one kilogram of fish was sold for $4.95. Estimate how many kilograms of fish

you could buy with $20.

2. Estimate each of the following mentally and choose the correct answer in each case:

3. Round off the following:

a) 456 g to the nearest 10 g

b) 722 g to the nearest 100 g

c) 123.452 cm to 1 decimal place

d) 31.256 m to the nearest 10 m

e) 845 km to the nearest 10 km

4. State the number of significant figures in each of the following:

a) 15.0 c) 30 756 e) 63

b) 27.3 d) 4.02 f) 9.5


5. Express the following numbers correct to the number of significant figures indicated within

the brackets:

a) 3.084 (2) g) 0.0351 (2)

b) 0.00346 (1) h) 8.353 (2)

c) 3.14159 (2) i) 4.826 (3)

d) 0.05678 (3) j) 0.04972 (2)

e) 3.598 (3) k) 0.01010 (3)

f) 0.00356 (2)

7.94
6. (a) Estimate the value of 2.01 correct to 1 significant figure.

79400
(b) Use your result to estimate the value of 0.000201

7. Express 28.136275 correct to two significant figures. How many decimal places are there in

the result?

8. Express 0.21108794 correct to three significant figures. Write down the number of decimal

places in the result.

9. Find the solution of each of the following:

a) 3 × 47 = 3𝑎 g) √2𝑎 + 1 = 7

b) 50 − 5𝑎 = 10 h) 11x = 66
𝑎 25
c) = i) 4a = -20
3 5

j) -9p = 0
d) 0.5𝑎 − 1 = 4
k) 15 - 5x = 24 – 8x
e) 9 − 𝑎2 = 0
l) 2(c - 4) = 3(c - 2)
f) √𝑎 = 5
m) 3(2a + 3) = 4a + 3
n) 5x = x + 4 q) 5x + 7 = 4(x + 3) + 2x – 4

o) -d + 3d = 14 r) 3(4x + 13) - 5(2x + 3) = 2x + 24

p) 3d - 12 = d + 2 s) (5m - 2) - 2(m + 1) = (3m - 4)

10. Solve the following equations:

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