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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.Write 260,000 in standard form.
- 2.A café offers 3 types of soup and 4 types of bread roll. Work out how many different combinations of one soup and one bread roll are possible.
- 3.A circle has a radius of 3 cm. Which of these is the exact area of the circle?
- 4.A jumper is reduced by 15% in a sale to a price of £42.50. Work out the original price.
- 5.Put these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3.2 × 10⁴, 2.9 × 10⁵, 4.1 × 10³
- 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.Josh buys 7 pencils at 85p each. He pays with a £10 note. Work out his change.
- 8.3.4 × 10⁵ is written as an ordinary number. Work out this number.
- 9.Sam rounds 0.070268 to 3 significant figures and writes 0.0703. Which of these statements is correct?
- 10.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.
- 11.A box stands on a table. The box exerts a force of 240 N on the table, and the base of the box has an area of 0.8 m². Work out the pressure the box exerts on the table, in N/m².
- 12.Work out (6 × 10⁷) + (3 × 10⁶). Give your answer in standard form.
- 13.A washing machine costs £320 before VAT. VAT is charged at 20%. Work out the total price including VAT.
- 14.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.
- 15.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.
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