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NCERT Solutions: Class 7 Maths Chapter 11 - Exponents and Powers

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Chapter-wise NCERT intext questions and exercise answers for Exponents and Powers, grounded in the official textbook.

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1Exercise 11.11 questions
Q.1-8Exercise 11.1 asks students to evaluate powers, express repeated products in exponential form, write numbers as powers, express numbers as products of prime factors in exponential form, simplify expressions using powers, evaluate powers with negative bases and compare large numbers written in standard form.v
Solution

Use $a^m$ to mean $a$ multiplied by itself $m$ times. Negative bases give a positive result for even exponents and a negative result for odd exponents.

Answer:

1. (i) 64 (ii) 729 (iii) 121 (iv) 625.
2. (i) 64 (ii) $t^2$ (iii) $b^4$ (iv) $5^2\times7^3$ (v) $2^2\times a^2$ (vi) $a^3\times c^4\times d$.
3. (i) $2^9$ (ii) $7^3$ (iii) $3^6$ (iv) $5^5$.
4. (i) $3^4$ (ii) $3^5$ (iii) $2^8$ (iv) $2^{100}$ (v) $2^{10}$.
5. (i) $2^3\times3^4$ (ii) $5\times3^4$ (iii) $2^2\times3^3\times5$ (iv) $2^4\times3^2\times5^2$.
6. (i) 2000 (ii) 196 (iii) 40 (iv) 768 (v) 0 (vi) 675 (vii) 144 (viii) 90000.
7. (i) $-64$ (ii) 24 (iii) 225 (iv) 8000.
8. (i) $2.7\times10^{12}>1.5\times10^8$ (ii) $4\times10^{14}<3\times10^{17}$.

2Exercise 11.21 questions
Q.1-5Exercise 11.2 asks students to simplify expressions using laws of exponents, say true or false with justification, express products in prime-factor exponential form and simplify expressions involving powers and variables.v
Solution

Use exponent laws: $a^m\times a^n=a^{m+n}$, $a^m\div a^n=a^{m-n}$, $(a^m)^n=a^{mn}$, $(ab)^m=a^mb^m$ and $a^0=1$ for $a\ne0$.

Answer:

1. (i) $3^{14}$ (ii) $6^5$ (iii) $a^5$ (iv) $7^{x+2}$ (v) $5^3$ (vi) $10^5$ (vii) $(ab)^4$ (viii) $3^{12}$ (ix) $2^8$ (x) $8^{t-2}$.
2. (i) $3^3$ (ii) $5^3$ (iii) $5^5$ (iv) $7\times11^5$ (v) $3^0$ or 1 (vi) 3 (vii) 1 (viii) 2 (ix) $(2a)^2$ (x) $a^{10}$ (xi) $a^3b$ (xii) $2^8$.
3. (i) False; $10\times10^{11}=10^{12}$ and $(100)^{11}=10^{22}$ (ii) False; $2^3=8$, $5^2=25$ (iii) False; $6^5=2^5\times3^5$ (iv) True; $3^0=1$, $(1000)^0=1$.
4. (i) $2^8\times3^4$ (ii) $2\times3^3\times5$ (iii) $3^6\times2^6$ (iv) $2^8\times3$.
5. (i) 98 (ii) $\frac{4}{5t^8}$ (iii) 1.

3Exercise 11.31 questions
Q.1-41. Write the following numbers in the expanded forms: 279404, 3006194, 2806196, 120719, 20068. 2. Find the number from each of the following expanded forms: (a) $8\times10^4+6\times10^3+0\times10^2+4\times10^1+5\times10^0$ (b) $4\times10^5+5\times10^3+3\times10^2+2\times10^0$ (c) $3\times10^4+7\times10^2+5\times10^0$ (d) $9\times10^5+2\times10^2+3\times10^1$. 3. Express the following numbers in standard form: (i) 5,00,00,000 (ii) 70,00,000 (iii) 3,18,65,00,000 (iv) 3,90,878 (v) 39087.8 (vi) 3908.78. 4. Express the number appearing in the following statements in standard form, including distances, speed of light, diameters of Earth and Sun, number of stars, age of universe, distance of Sun from Milky Way centre, molecules in a drop of water, sea-water volume and population of India.v
Solution

Expanded form writes each digit multiplied by the corresponding power of 10. Standard form writes a number as $a\times10^n$, where $1\le a<10$.

Answer:

1. $279404=2\times10^5+7\times10^4+9\times10^3+4\times10^2+0\times10^1+4\times10^0$; $3006194=3\times10^6+0\times10^5+0\times10^4+6\times10^3+1\times10^2+9\times10^1+4\times10^0$; $2806196=2\times10^6+8\times10^5+0\times10^4+6\times10^3+1\times10^2+9\times10^1+6\times10^0$; $120719=1\times10^5+2\times10^4+0\times10^3+7\times10^2+1\times10^1+9\times10^0$; $20068=2\times10^4+0\times10^3+0\times10^2+6\times10^1+8\times10^0$.
2. (a) 86045 (b) 405302 (c) 30705 (d) 900230.
3. (i) $5\times10^7$ (ii) $7\times10^6$ (iii) $3.1865\times10^9$ (iv) $3.90878\times10^5$ (v) $3.90878\times10^4$ (vi) $3.90878\times10^3$.
4. (a) $3.84\times10^8$ m (b) $3\times10^8$ m/s (c) $1.2756\times10^7$ m (d) $1.4\times10^9$ m (e) $1\times10^{11}$ (f) $1.2\times10^{10}$ years (g) $3\times10^{20}$ m (h) $6.023\times10^{22}$ (i) $1.353\times10^9\text{ km}^3$ (j) $1.027\times10^9$.