UNIT 01

September

1. Describe this picture where every triangle is a right triangle.

2. The Great Pyramid (or the Pyramid of Keops) is a square pyramid. Approximately, the
height of this pyramid and the side of the base are 146 m and 230 m respectively.
Prove that:

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3. Complete the following table and check that the value of:

+
approaches e as n gets bigger and bigger.

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4. Are these numbers irrationals?

) 4

) 5

) 4 + 1

) 9 + 4

) 9 + 4

) 14 + 2

5. Order from highest to lowest the following numbers and classify them.

. ; . ; . ; ;
; . ;

; . ; ; .

6. In a Equilateral triangle which kind of number is:

a) The height, if the side measures 10 cm.

b) The area, if the side measures 3 cm.

c) The height and the area if the side measures cm

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September

7. Represent the numbers on the real number line.

; . ;
; ; ;
; ;
; . ; .

8. Represent the numbers on the real number line.

; + ;

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September

9. Classifies these numbers:

. ; ; , ;

; + ; +
; ; .

10. A fence is 22 cm long to the nearest centimetre. Find an upper bound for the absolute
and relative errors. (Remember: An upper bound for the absolute error is half a unit of
the last significant figure in the approximate value).

11. Consider the golden number . Round it to two decimal places and find an upper
bound for the absolute and relative errors.

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September

12. Use a reasonable number of significant figures to express the following quantities. Find
an upper bound for the absolute and relative errors in each case.
a) Listeners of a radio program: 843,754
b) Price of a car: 28,782
c) Time it takes light to travel a distance: 0.0375 seconds.
d) Council expenses: 48,759,450

13. Using the calculator, write in decimal form and its approaches, rounding and
truncation to thousandths.

14. Find the absolute error by rounding 4.7569 to hundredths. Which one is the relative
error?

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September

15. Find the absolute and the relative error by rounding:

a) . to thousandths.
b) to tenthousandths.
c)

to tenths.

d) . to thousandths.

16. Find two different approaches of 1.45 with the same relative error.

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Exercises 4.1.2.7

UNIT 01

September

Prove that the triangles and are similar. (Hint: inscribe the pentagon in a

circumference and remember that: angles on same arc are equal, and if two triangles
have two of their angles equal, the triangles are similar).

Let and be the diagonal and the side of the pentagon respectively. Prove
that = .

Since

prove that

Since the triangles and are similar, we can write that:

Therefore:

=
=

=

In order to find the value of , solve the previous equation.

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September

http://www.math-play.com/rational-and-irrational-numbers-game/rational-andirrational-numbers-game.html

http://staff.argyll.epsb.ca/jreed/math9/strand1/munchers.htm

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Exercises 4.1.2.9

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September

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/decimals/scooterQuestDecRound.htm

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Exercises 4.1.2.10