Class 7 · Arithmetic

Real Numbers and Their Properties — test yourself

Twelve questions on the six number sets, adding and subtracting roots, multiplying and dividing real numbers, and the closure, commutative, associative, identity and inverse properties. Everything here is taught in the course.

12 questions, one mark each. 8 to pass. Suggested time: 10 minutes. Your answers are not recorded.

  1. Which of these numbers is not a natural number?
  2. Which of these numbers is irrational?
  3. What is 25+652\sqrt{5} + 6\sqrt{5}?
  4. What is 11×11\sqrt{11} \times \sqrt{11}?
  5. What is 8+(8)8 + (-8)?
  6. One of these has no answer at all. Which one?
  7. Which of these sums can not be made simpler?
  8. What is 32×523\sqrt{2} \times 5\sqrt{2}?
  9. Multiply out 4(5+2)4(\sqrt{5} + 2).
  10. For real numbers aa and bb, which line is not always true?
  11. What is 16÷(8÷2)16 \div (8 \div 2)?
  12. Write 105\displaystyle \frac{10}{\sqrt{5}} with no root on the bottom.
Unanswered questions are marked wrong.