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Exercise 1.1
- Express each number as a product of its prime factors:
- 140
- 156
- 3825
- 5005
- 7429
- Find the LCM and HCF of the following pairs of integers and verify that LCM × HCF = product of the two numbers.
- 26 and 91
- 510 and 92
- 336 and 54
- Find the LCM and HCF of the following integers by applying the prime factorisation method.
- 26 and 91
- 510 and 92
- 336 and 54
- Given that HCF (306, 657) = 9, find LCM (306, 657).
- Check whether 6n can end with the digit 0 for any natural number n.
- Explain why 7 × 11 × 13 + 13 and 7 × 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 + 5 are composite numbers.
- There is a circular path around a sports field. Sonia takes 18 minutes to drive one round of the field, while Ravi takes 12 minutes for the same. Suppose they both start at the same point and at the same time, and go in the same direction. After how many minutes will they meet again at the starting point?
- Consider the numbers 4n, where n is a natural number. Check whether there is any value of n for which 4n ends with the digit zero.
- Find the LCM and HCF of 6 and 20 by the prime factorisation method.
- Find the HCF of 96 and 404 by the prime factorisation method. Hence, find their LCM.
- Find the HCF and LCM of 6, 72 and 120, using the prime factorisation method.
Exercise 1.2
- Prove that √5 is irrational.
- Prove that 3+2√5 is irrational.
- Prove that the following are irrationals :
- 1/√2
- 7√5
- 6+√2
- Prove that √3 is irrational.
- Show that 5– √3 is irrational.
- Show that 3 √2 is irrational