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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
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- 1.A jumper is reduced by 15% in a sale to a price of £42.50. Work out the original price.
- 2.Work out (8 × 10⁻⁵) × (5 × 10³). Give your answer in standard form.
- 3.3.4 × 10⁵ is written as an ordinary number. Work out this number.
- 4.A market trader buys 8 melons at £1.35 each. He sells all of them for a total of £15.60. Work out his profit.
- 5.After a price increase of 10%, a laptop costs £330. Work out the original price.
- 6.Round 0.006482 to 2 significant figures.
- 7.Work out (4 × 10³) × (3 × 10¹). Give your answer in standard form.
- 8.A photograph uses 4 × 10⁶ bytes of storage. A memory card holds 3.2 × 10¹⁰ bytes. Work out how many of these photographs the card can hold. Give your answer in standard form.
- 9.The number of visitors to a museum on Saturday is given as 1,800, correct to the nearest 100. Which of these could not be the actual number of visitors?
- 10.Four locations each record a temperature one winter morning. Which of these temperatures is the coldest?
- 11.Work out 35% of 180.
- 12.A charity raises money from a raffle and a cake sale in the ratio 5 : 3. Altogether the charity raises £320. Work out how much money the cake sale raised.
- 13.A restaurant adds a service charge of 15% to a bill of £120. Work out the service charge.
- 14.A tin of soup has a mass of 450 g. A bag of potatoes has a mass of 2.6 kg. Work out the total mass, in kilograms.
- 15.Leah measures the length of her classroom with a tape measure marked in centimetres. She writes the length down as 7.3157 m. Give a reason why this is not an appropriate degree of accuracy.
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