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Exercises

How numerate are you? Try this numbers quiz.
1 Name the first four odd numbers.
2 Name the first four even numbers.
3 Name the first four prime numbers.
4 Give an example of a decimal fraction.
5 Give an example of a vulgar fraction.
6 How do you read this formula and what does it represent: e=mc2?
7 How do you read this and what does it represent: 2zr?

Write the following in words rather than in figures or symbols.
1 2% of the British population owned 90% of the country's wealth in 1992.
2 0" C = 32" F
3 62.3% of adults have false teeth.
4 5/3+!4~4~=14%.
5 2,769,425 people live here.

Look at the figures in B opposite. What is the adjective relating to each of the shapes
illustrated? Use a dictionary if necessary.

Read the following records aloud.
1 Oxygen accounts for 46.6% of the earth's crust.
2 The nearest star to earth is Proxima Centauri. It is 33,923,310,000,000 km from earth.
3 The highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela with a drop of 979 m.
4 The top coffee-drinking country in the world is Finland where 1,892 cups per annum are
consumed per head of the population.
5 The tallest church in the world is the Chicago Methodist Temple which is 173 m or 568 ft
high.
6 The commonest item of lost property on London transport is the umbrella. 23,250
umbrellas were handed in to London transport lost property offices in 198718.
7 The country with the most telephones in the world is Monaco. It has 733 telephones per
1,000 population.
8 The smallest country in the world is the Vatican City with an area of 0.4 sq km.

5 1.5 Draw the following figures.
1 A right-angled triangle with two equal sides of about two centimetres in length. Draw a
small circle at the centre of the triangle and then draw lines from the centre of the circle to
each of the angles of the triangle.
2 A rectangle with diagonal lines joining opposite angles.
3 An octagon with equal sides. Draw an oval in the middle of the octagon.
4 A three-dimensional rectangular shape of roughly 6 cm by 3 cm by 2 cm.

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