Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 7/20, 0.3, 32%

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

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.Work out 35% of 180.

5.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.

6.A photograph uses 4 × 10⁶ bytes of storage. A memory card holds 3.2 × 10¹⁰ bytes. Work out how many of these photographs the card can hold. Give your answer in standard form.

7.Two fair six-sided dice are rolled together. One die is red and the other is blue. Work out how many different outcomes are possible.

8.A plank of wood is 5 1/4 m long. Pieces of length 3/4 m are cut from it. Work out how many complete pieces of 3/4 m can be cut from the plank.

9.Sam rounds 0.070268 to 3 significant figures and writes 0.0703. Which of these statements is correct?

10.A tap fills a 20 litre bucket in 2 minutes 30 seconds. Work out the rate of flow, in litres per minute.

11.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.

12.Write 45,000 in standard form.

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

14.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.

15.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.