TED ANKARA COLLEGE FOUNDATION HİGH
SCHOOL
9th GRADE MATHEMATICS WORKSHEET
1) Simplify and write your results as a single exponent
a) 42 × 41
b) 135 × 139
c) (−1)8 × (−1)7
d) 8 × 85
e) 𝑎 × 𝑎3
f) (−2)3 × (−2)2
2) Simplify and write your results as a single exponent
512
a) 58
107
b) 106
112
c) 110
𝑚6
d) 𝑚2
𝑛 123
e) 𝑛
f) 𝑥 8 ÷ 𝑥 3
3) Simplify and write your results as a single exponent
a) (82 )3
b) (47 )2
c) (31 )4
d) (𝑚3 )3
e) (𝑎5 )4
f) (𝑥 2 )6
4) Copy and complete, replacing each with a number or operation:
𝑎) (25 ) = 215 b) (5 )2 = 256 c) 85 162 = 27
d) 85 162 = 223 e) 𝑎6 𝑎6 = 𝑎12 f) 𝑎6 𝑎6 = 1
5) Simplify using the exponent laws:
𝑎) 7𝑎3 × 2𝑎2 b) 2𝑎3 𝑏 × 4𝑎𝑏2 c) 3𝑎4 𝑏c × 5𝑎2 𝑏
6𝑥 3 24𝑡 3 15𝑎 4 𝑏
d) e) f)
𝑥 3𝑡 2 3𝑎 2
6) Remove the brackets and simplify:
a)(𝑎𝑏)2 b)(5𝑏)3 c) (2𝑚𝑘)2
d)(𝑥 2 𝑦)3 e) (4𝑘 3 𝑚)2 f) (3𝑎3 𝑏2 )2
7) Remove the brackets and simplify:
𝑎 3 𝑏 4 3 2
a) (𝑏 ) b) ( 2) c)(𝑐 )
5 5 4
2𝑎 3 27𝑎 3 𝑏 6 𝑐 𝑎2
d) ( 𝑏4 ) e) ( ) f) (9𝑏3 )
3𝑏4
8) Remove the brackets and simplify
a)50 b)(−4)0 c)(24 35 )0
d) 7+ (100)0 e) 19 × 320 f) (144𝑥25)0
9) Simplify
𝑛3 𝑥𝑦 𝑎4 𝑏3
a) 𝑛3 b)𝑥𝑦 c) 𝑏2
10) Write as a power with a negative exponent:
5 67 32
a) 54 b) 617 c) 39
11) Evaluate
a) 41 + 4−2 b) 30 − 3−1 c) 50 + 5−1 + 51
12) Write as a fraction
𝑎) 𝑥 −1 b) 𝑘 −3 c) (2𝑚)−2
13) Simplify, giving answers in simplest rational form :
1 5 1 1
a) (4)−1 b) (6)−2 c) (10)−3 d) (2 3)−1
14) Write without brackets or negative exponents :
1
a) 3𝑥 −1 b) (3𝑥)−1 c) (𝑘)−2 d) (5𝑥 −2 )−1
(𝑥𝑦)2 1
e) (4𝑎𝑏𝑐)−1 f) g) (3𝑎−1 )−1 h) (2 𝑎−1 )−1
2−2
15) Write using powers of 2, 3 and 5 only
1 1 25 1
a) 64 b) 128 c) 81 d) e) 1024 f)125 g )81
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16) What is the units digit of 5199 − 1 ?
17) The number of employees in a restaurant is 5 in the first year. Find the number of
employees that the employer plans to increase by 2 times every year compared to the previous
year after 10 years.
18) A bacterium quadruples its size every 3 hours. If there are 300 bacteria in a container with
a bacterium that shows this growth, how many of these bacteria are expected to be in the
given conditions after 15 hours?
19) Find the last digit of 780 (By considering , 70 , 71 , 72 ,…)
20) 𝐴 = 20 × 32 × (−25)4 factorise A in to the prime factors.