Academic Support and
Development Unit
Numeration Practice Questions
1.
Write this number in words: 45 030 015
2. Write this number in numerals: Five hundred and three million, four hundred and forty five
thousand, two hundred and one.
3. What is the place value of 3 in 13 005
4. Rename 4295 in three different ways that demonstrates your knowledge of place value.
Four two nine five is NOT an acceptable answer.
5. Observe the abacus in pictures below. If the number shown by the first abacus in cell A is
four hundred and ninety two write the numbers being displayed by other two abacuses in B
and C
A: 492
B:
C:
6. What is the value of 5 x (16 ÷ 4) + 3 x 2 – 1
Show your working out.
7. List all composite numbers in this series of numbers
3
5
15
19
21
23
27
33
8.
Write 36 as a product of its prime factors.
9.
Sue was asked to write Fourteen as numerals. She wrote 41. Explain her misconception in
making this mistake
10. Write the number shown in the expanded notation below:
(5 X 100 000) + (3 X 10 000) + (9 X 100) + (4 x 10) + (3 x 1)