Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Work out 8% of £250.

2.A carton of orange juice holds 1.35 litres. Ruby pours the juice equally into 4 identical glasses. Work out how much juice is in each glass, giving your answer as a fraction of a litre in its simplest form.

3.A speed camera measures a car's speed as 34 mph, correct to the nearest mph. Work out the smallest possible actual speed of the car, in mph.

4.A flight departs at 21:35 and lands at 06:10 the following morning. Work out the total flight time.

5.Maya buys 4 plants at £3.20 each and a bag of compost for £6.75. She pays with a £20 note. Work out her change.

6.A café sells ice cream in three flavours: vanilla, mango and pistachio. Isla buys a cone with two scoops, using two different flavours, one for the bottom scoop and one for the top scoop. Work out how many different cones she could buy.

7.A car is hired from 10:00 on Monday until 16:00 on Thursday. Work out the total length of the hire, in hours.

8.A van has a mass of 2,000 kg, correct to 1 significant figure. Using m for the mass of the van in kilograms, write down the error interval for m.

9.A block of butter has a mass of 250 g, correct to the nearest 10 g. Using m for the mass of the block in grams, write down the error interval for m.

10.Four friends share a restaurant bill of £53.90 equally. A calculator gives each share as 13.475. Work out how much each friend should pay.

11.Work out (4 × 10³) × (3 × 10¹). Give your answer in standard form.

12.Write these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: −1.4, 5/4, −6/5, 1.3, 0

13.The diameter of an artificial silk fibre is 4 × 10⁻⁶ metres. One nanometre is 10⁻⁹ metres. Work out the diameter of the fibre in nanometres.

14.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.

15.Work out 35% of 180.