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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

Maths · GCSE Foundation · Number · Calculator · 15 questions

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1.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.
(a)£9.69
(b)£96.90
(c)£969.00
(d)£102.00
2.A café orders 340 bread rolls at 24p each and 85 cakes at £1.35 each. Work out the total cost of the order.
(a)£114.75
(b)£81.60
(c)£196.35
(d)£122.91
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.
(a)£7.20
(b)£10.05
(c)£0.45
(d)£1.45
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.
(a)4 × 10⁸
(b)4 × 10¹²
(c)4 × 10⁴
(d)6 × 10⁴
5.Put these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3.2 × 10⁴, 2.9 × 10⁵, 4.1 × 10³
(a)3.2 × 10⁴, 4.1 × 10³, 2.9 × 10⁵
(b)2.9 × 10⁵, 3.2 × 10⁴, 4.1 × 10³
(c)4.1 × 10³, 3.2 × 10⁴, 2.9 × 10⁵
(d)4.1 × 10³, 2.9 × 10⁵, 3.2 × 10⁴
6.A box stands on a table. The box exerts a force of 240 N on the table, and the base of the box has an area of 0.8 m². Work out the pressure the box exerts on the table, in N/m².
(a)300 N/m²
(b)3000 N/m²
(c)192 N/m²
(d)30 N/m²
7.A cheetah runs at a steady speed of 25 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.
(a)1500 km/h
(b)90 km/h
(c)90000 km/h
(d)6.9 km/h
8.Given that 2⁵ = 32, work out 2⁶.
(a)34
(b)37
(c)192
(d)64
9.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.
(a)£4.80
(b)£26.40
(c)£14.25
(d)£5.20
10.A block of butter has a mass of 250 g, correct to the nearest 10 g. Using m for the mass of the block in grams, write down the error interval for m.
(a)240 ≤ m < 250
(b)245 ≤ m < 255
(c)245 < m ≤ 255
(d)240 ≤ m < 260
11.A café offers 3 types of soup and 4 types of bread roll. Work out how many different combinations of one soup and one bread roll are possible.
(a)3
(b)12
(c)7
(d)4
12.Write 260,000 in standard form.
(a)2.6 × 10⁶
(b)26 × 10⁴
(c)2.6 × 10⁵
(d)0.26 × 10⁶
13.A bag of flour is labelled 1.5 kg, correct to the nearest 0.1 kg. The true mass of the flour is m kg. Which inequality gives all the possible values of m?
(a)1.4 ≤ m < 1.6
(b)1.45 ≤ m < 1.55
(c)1.45 < m ≤ 1.55
(d)1.45 ≤ m ≤ 1.55
14.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.
(a)7.1 kg
(b)2.645 kg
(c)3.05 kg
(d)452.6 kg
15.A cube-shaped storage tank has a volume of 15,625 cubic centimetres. Work out the length of one edge of the tank.
(a)5 cm
(b)50 cm
(c)25 cm
(d)125 cm

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