Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.The number of visitors to a museum on Saturday is given as 1,800, correct to the nearest 100. Which of these could not be the actual number of visitors?

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

3.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.

4.The number of pages in a book is 240, correct to the nearest 10 pages. Write down the error interval for the actual number of pages, n.

5.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.

6.Which of these is written correctly in standard form?

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

8.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.

9.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.

10.A plumber charges a call-out fee of £45 and then £28 for each hour she works. She is at a house from 09:15 until 12:45. Work out the total charge.

11.A crowd of 8,400 people is recorded correct to the nearest 100. Work out the smallest possible number of people in the crowd.

12.3/5 of the students in a year group walk to school. 90 students walk to school. Work out the total number of students in the year group.

13.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.

14.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.

15.The length of a pencil is 8.4 cm, correct to 1 decimal place. Using L for the length of the pencil in centimetres, write down the error interval for L.