Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Work out 8% of £250.

2.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.

3.A jug holds 1.8 litres of juice. Priya pours out 3/4 of a litre to fill a glass. Work out how much juice is left in the jug, in millilitres.

4.A charity raises 8 × 10⁶ pounds. This total is shared equally among 2 × 10² local projects. Work out how much each project receives, in standard form.

5.A jumper is reduced by 15% in a sale to a price of £42.50. Work out the original price.

6.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.

7.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.

8.Petrol costs £1.48 per litre. Sam buys 35 litres and pays with three £20 notes. Work out his change.

9.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.

10.A crowd of 8,400 people is recorded correct to the nearest 100. Work out the smallest possible number of people in the crowd.

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

12.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.

13.Work out 35% of 180.

14.3/5 of the students in a year group walk to school. 90 students walk to school. Work out the total number of students in the year group.

15.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.