Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

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

2.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.

3.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.

4.Write these fractions in order, starting with the smallest: 2/3, 3/5, 5/6, 1/2

5.3.4 × 10⁵ is written as an ordinary number. Work out this number.

6.Postage on a parcel is calculated as £4.60, correct to the nearest 20p. Which of these could not be the actual cost of the postage?

7.Work out 10% of 30% of £200.

8.Work out (6 × 10⁷) + (3 × 10⁶). Give your answer in standard form.

9.Bella's electricity supplier charges 28.5p per unit (kWh). Last month she used 340 units. Work out the total cost, giving your answer in pounds.

10.A pair of trainers is priced at £80 online. The shop takes 25% off the price and then adds £10 for next-day delivery. Work out the total cost.

11.A cheetah runs at a steady speed of 25 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.

12.A bag holds 5 different sweets. Noah takes 2 of the sweets out of the bag together, so the order in which he takes them does not matter. Work out how many different pairs of sweets he could take.

13.Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and their scores are added together. By listing the possible totals systematically, work out how many different totals are possible.

14.Using only 20p coins and 10p coins, and at least one of each, work out how many different ways there are to make exactly 60p. List the possibilities systematically.

15.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.