Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km. Write this distance in standard form, in kilometres.

2.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.

3.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.

4.Four locations each record a temperature one winter morning. Which of these temperatures is the coldest?

5.A restaurant adds a service charge of 15% to a bill of £120. Work out the service charge.

6.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.

7.Write these decimals in order, starting with the smallest: 0.6, 0.55, 0.601, 0.5, 0.56

8.A charity bake sale sells 187 cakes at £2.95 each. By rounding each number to 1 significant figure, work out an estimate for the total amount raised.

9.Josh buys 7 pencils at 85p each. He pays with a £10 note. Work out his change.

10.A cube-shaped storage box has edges of length 7 cm. A shelf can hold a total volume of 2,000 cm³. Work out the greatest number of these boxes that will fit in that volume.

11.A plane flies 2340 km at an average speed of 780 km/h. It departs at 08:20. Work out the arrival time, using the 24-hour clock.

12.A cube-shaped storage tank has a volume of 15,625 cubic centimetres. Work out the length of one edge of the tank.

13.Work out (3 × 10²) × (2 × 10⁵). Give your answer in standard form.

14.A café offers sandwiches with one filling from 5 choices and one type of bread from 4 choices. Cheese and mustard, which is one of the 5 fillings, is not available on gluten-free bread, which is one of the 4 breads. Work out how many different sandwiches are possible.

15.Work out 8% of £250.