Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.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.

2.A car is hired from 10:00 on Monday until 16:00 on Thursday. Work out the total length of the hire, in hours.

3.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.

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

5.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.

6.A piece of ribbon is 2.4 metres long. Kim cuts 40 cm from it. Work out the length of ribbon left, in millimetres.

7.Write 0.0038 in standard form.

8.Work out 35% of 180.

9.A country's population is 8,340,000, and it is estimated that 1,950,000 of them live in the capital city. By rounding each number to 1 significant figure, work out an estimate for the number of people who do not live in the capital city.

10.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.

11.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.

12.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.

13.A courier's van has a weight limit of 850 kg for its parcels. The driver's display shows the total mass of the parcels loaded as 850 kg, correct to the nearest 5 kg. Decide whether the parcels are definitely within the weight limit.

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

15.A lorry travels 105 miles in 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out its average speed in miles per hour.