Class 8 Maths — Chapter 2: Power Play
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What you'll learn
- ▸Understanding Exponential Growth
- ▸Exponential Notation
- ▸Prime Factorization in Exponential Form
- ▸Evaluating Powers of Integers
- ▸Product Rule of Exponents
- ▸Power of a Power Rule
Chapter Summary
--- PAGE 1 --- POWER PLAY 2.1 Experiencing the Power Play ... An Impossible Venture! Take a sheet of paper, as large a sheet as you can find. Fold it once. Fold it again, and again. ? How many times can you fold it over and over? Estu says “I heard that a sheet of paper can’t be folded more than 7 times”. Roxie replies “What if we use a thinner paper, like a newspaper or a tissue paper?” Try it with different types of paper and see what happens. If you can fold a paper What! That's crazy! Well, why 46 times, it will be so Just 46 times!? You don't you find thick that it can reach must have ignored out yourselves. the Moon! several zeros after 46…
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- Explain exponential growth simply. Get Solution →
- Calculate paper thickness after 20 folds. Get Solution →
- Find more real-world exponential examples. Get Solution →
- According to the text, what is the assumed initial thickness of the sheet of paper used in the folding example? Get Solution →
- What is the shorthand or exponential notation for n × n × n? Get Solution →
- In the exponential form 5⁴, what is the number 5 called? Get Solution →
- What is the general rule for multiplying two exponential terms with the same base, such as nᵃ × nᵇ? Get Solution →
- The text states that after every 10 folds, the thickness of the paper increases by how many times? Get Solution →
Did you know?
- 💡 A single bacterium can multiply into over 16 million in just 24 hours.
- 💡 Compound interest makes money grow exponentially, becoming much larger over time.
- 💡 The legendary chessboard and rice problem shows how quickly numbers explode.
- 💡 Folding paper 46 times would create a stack thick enough to reach the Moon.
- 💡 Only special machines can fold a sheet of paper more than 12 times.
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