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Learning Outcomes
• Understand how numbers can be represented in standard form.
• Understand the different prefixes and what they mean.
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10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
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0.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00091
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Example 1
How big is a nanometre, in metres? [2]
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Example 2
Jim works at a power station that supplies 50MW of energy. He wants to know how many 50W light bulbs this will power. Can you help? [2]
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Example 3
Sally has just bought a new computer with 8 Gigabytes of RAM. How many times more powerful is this computer than her old one, if her old one had 250 Megabytes of RAM ? [3]
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