Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Four locations each record a temperature one winter morning. Which of these temperatures is the coldest?

2.Write 0.0038 in standard form.

3.A cyclist rides at a steady speed of 8 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.

4.A train leaves Leeds at 14:35. The journey takes 1 hour 50 minutes. Work out the time the train arrives. Give your answer using the 24-hour clock.

5.Round 0.006482 to 2 significant figures.

6.A cinema has 250 seats. 12% of the seats are reserved. Work out how many of the seats are reserved.

7.A recipe uses 0.625 kg of flour. Write this mass as a fraction of a kilogram, in its simplest form.

8.A car travels 180 km using 6 litres of fuel. Work out the car's fuel consumption in kilometres per litre, then work out how many kilometres it can travel on a full tank of 12 litres at this rate.

9.A digital timer truncates every time to 1 decimal place. It shows a swimmer's time for one length as 12.3 seconds. Using t for the swimmer's actual time in seconds, write down the error interval for t.

10.A photography studio offers 4 backdrops and 3 outfits for a portrait session. The plain grey backdrop, one of the 4 backdrops, cannot be used with the formal suit outfit, one of the 3 outfits. Work out how many different backdrop-and-outfit combinations are possible.

11.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.

12.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.

13.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.

14.Round 6.283 to 1 significant figure.

15.A carton of orange juice holds 1.35 litres. Ruby pours the juice equally into 4 identical glasses. Work out how much juice is in each glass, giving your answer as a fraction of a litre in its simplest form.