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Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

Fifteen questions across the number statements at Foundation tier. Choose the non-calculator filter to rehearse Paper 1, which counts for a third of the marks.

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Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

Maths · GCSE Foundation · Number · Calculator · 15 questions

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1.A restaurant adds a service charge of 15% to a bill of £120. Work out the service charge.
(a)£18
(b)£8
(c)£138
(d)£12
2.By listing systematically, work out how many two-digit multiples of 5 can be made using the digits 0, 3 and 5, if each digit can be used at most once and the number cannot start with 0.
(a)2
(b)3
(c)4
(d)6
3.Sam rounds 0.070268 to 3 significant figures and writes 0.0703. Which of these statements is correct?
(a)Sam should have written 0.070
(b)Sam should have written 0.0704
(c)Sam is correct
(d)Sam should have written 0.0702
4.A recipe uses 0.625 kg of flour. Write this mass as a fraction of a kilogram, in its simplest form.
(a)31/50
(b)25/4
(c)5/8
(d)8/5
5.Work out 10% of 30% of £200.
(a)£60
(b)£80
(c)£20
(d)£6
6.A flight departs at 21:35 and lands at 06:10 the following morning. Work out the total flight time.
(a)9 hours 35 minutes
(b)7 hours 35 minutes
(c)8 hours 35 minutes
(d)15 hours 25 minutes
7.A cinema has 250 seats. 12% of the seats are reserved. Work out how many of the seats are reserved.
(a)3
(b)30
(c)25
(d)24
8.The length of a pencil is 8.4 cm, correct to 1 decimal place. Using L for the length of the pencil in centimetres, write down the error interval for L.
(a)8.35 ≤ L < 8.45
(b)8.4 ≤ L < 8.5
(c)8.3 ≤ L < 8.5
(d)8.35 < L ≤ 8.45
9.Two-digit numbers are made using the digits 1, 2, 3 and 4, and no digit may be used twice in the same number. Work out how many different two-digit numbers can be made.
(a)12
(b)6
(c)16
(d)8
10.A florist has 5 different flowers. Freya picks 3 of them to make a small bunch, and the order in which she picks them does not matter. Work out how many different bunches she could make.
(a)30
(b)15
(c)60
(d)10
11.The thickness of a sheet of card is 0.02384 cm. Write this thickness correct to 2 significant figures.
(a)0.02 cm
(b)0.023 cm
(c)0.0238 cm
(d)0.024 cm
12.Four locations each record a temperature one winter morning. Which of these temperatures is the coldest?
(a)−4.5 °C
(b)−3.8 °C
(c)−4.05 °C
(d)2 °C
13.A company sells 4 × 10³ items per day, each priced at £2.50. It operates for 3 × 10² days a year. Work out the company's total revenue for the year. Give your answer in standard form.
(a)1.2 × 10⁶
(b)3 × 10⁷
(c)3 × 10⁶
(d)1.03 × 10⁴
14.A crowd of 8,400 people is recorded correct to the nearest 100. Work out the smallest possible number of people in the crowd.
(a)8,350
(b)8,450
(c)8,390
(d)8,300
15.A café buys 18 boxes of teabags at £3.45 each, and sells all the teabags for £108 in total. Work out the café's profit.
(a)£62.10
(b)£45.90
(c)£46.10
(d)£170.10

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