A-Level Maths Surds and Indices

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Surds and indices Topics for A-Level Maths

This module will teach you the following:

Year 1

  • Surds: simplification
  • Indices: simplification
  • Standard form

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What Are Surds and Indices?

Surds

Surds are numbers consisting of square roots that are irrational. Irrational number is a real number that cannot be represented as simplest fraction. Examples of surds are √3, 1/5+√2   and 2+√5.

The value of √3 is expressed as 1.732050808 … This is an approximate value. To obtain accurate value of expressions containing surds, it is important to learn to simplify them.

Indices

You may come across expressions such as, bp.

b represents the base and p represents the power or the index to which the base is raised to.

In this section, the various operations related to indices are discussed.

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