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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 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.
- 2.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.
- 3.Write these fractions in order, starting with the smallest: 2/3, 3/5, 5/6, 1/2
- 4.A shop buys boxes of pens for £4 each. It sells each box on to a school for £3 more than it paid, and charges an extra £2 delivery fee for the whole order. A school orders 5 boxes. Work out the total cost of the order.
- 5.Josh buys 7 pencils at 85p each. He pays with a £10 note. Work out his change.
- 6.Rice is sold in a 400 g bag for £1.12 and in a 1.5 kg bag for £3.90. Work out how much less the rice in the larger bag costs per kilogram.
- 7.Work out (8 × 10⁻⁵) × (5 × 10³). Give your answer in standard form.
- 8.A cyclist rides at a steady speed of 8 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.
- 9.Work out 10% of 30% of £200.
- 10.The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km. Write this distance in standard form, in kilometres.
- 11.A red blood cell has a diameter of about 7 × 10⁻⁶ metres. A virus has a diameter about 100 times smaller. Work out the diameter of the virus. Give your answer in standard form.
- 12.A quantity surveyor calculates a length as 24.6851 m. Round this length to 2 decimal places.
- 13.Write 0.0038 in standard form.
- 14.Work out (3 × 10²) × (2 × 10⁵). Give your answer in standard form.
- 15.A jacket normally costs £65. In a sale it is reduced by 20%, and the shop then takes a further £5 off at the till. Work out the final price.
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