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This worksheet for Lower Secondary Math focuses on powers and roots, including fractional and negative powers, and the laws of indices. It provides objectives, key laws of indices, notes on powers with negative integers, and various exercises to find exact values. The document serves as a guide for students to enhance their understanding of mathematical concepts related to exponents.

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This worksheet for Lower Secondary Math focuses on powers and roots, including fractional and negative powers, and the laws of indices. It provides objectives, key laws of indices, notes on powers with negative integers, and various exercises to find exact values. The document serves as a guide for students to enhance their understanding of mathematical concepts related to exponents.

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Worksheet 11 |Lower Secondary

Stage (6-8)
1st Semester | 2024-2025

Subject: Math Chapter: 3 (3.1 – 3.5)


Objectives:
• To work with simple powers and roots using mental methods
• To work with fractional and negative powers, and reciprocals
• To use the laws of indices to simplify numerical expressions

The laws of indices:


a m  a n = a m+n (1)

am
n
= a m−n (2)
a

(a m ) n = (a n ) m = a mn (3)

1
a −m = (4)
am
−m m
a b
  =  (5)
b a

a0 = 1 (6)

1
n n
a = a (7)

( a)
m
m
a =
n n
= n am (8)

√𝑎 × √𝑎 = 𝑎 (9)

where a, m and n are real numbers.


Notes on powers with negative integers:
1- A negative base raised to an odd power will always be negative!

Example:

( −1 )3 = −1  −1  −1 = −1

( −2 )5 = −2  −2  −2  −2  −2 = −32

( −3 )3 = −27

2- A negative base raised to an even power will always be positive!

(−1)2 = −1 × −1 = 1

(−2)4 = −2 × −2 × −2 × −2 = 16

3- Note brackets when expanding the exponents.

Examples:

−22 = −( 2  2 ) = −4 the square is only for the two.

( −2 )2 = −2  −2 = 4 the square is for negative two.

4-The power can be distributed over multiplication and division but NOT over addition and
subtraction.

Examples:

( 3 y )3 = 33 y 3 = 27 y 3

2 2 22
( ) = 2
x x

( 3 + y )2 = ( 3 + y )( 3 + y )  32 + y 2

( y − 5 )2 = ( y − 5 )( y − 5 )  y 2 − 52

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Q1: Find the exact values of:

3
8= 3
− 27 =

1 −8
3 = 3 =
8 64
3
5  3 25 = 3 3
3
=
8

Q2: Find x:
4
𝑥2 = 2𝑥 2 = 200
81

x3 = 8 x 3 = −27

x3 = 0 2 x 3 − 50 = 200

Q3: Find the exact values of:

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Q4: Find the exact values of:
1 1
a a =2 2

1 1 1

a a a =
3 3 3

1 1 1 1
a a a a =
4 4 4 4

Q5: Find the exact values of:

a) b) c)

d) e) f)

g) h) i)

j) k) l)

m) n) o)

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Q7:

Q8:

Q9:

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Q11:

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