Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.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.

2.Work out 8% of £250.

3.Round 0.006482 to 2 significant figures.

4.A café is planning its lunch menu. It will offer one soup from 3 choices and one sandwich from 4 choices, but the mushroom soup, one of the 3 soups, will only be served with the cheese sandwich, one of the 4 sandwiches, on a normal day. Work out how many different soup-and-sandwich combinations are available on a normal day.

5.Work out (3 × 10²) × (2 × 10⁵). Give your answer in standard form.

6.The error interval for the mass of a suitcase, m kg, is given as 22.5 ≤ m < 23.5. Write down the mass of the suitcase, correct to the nearest whole number.

7.Write 0.00072 in standard form.

8.A café orders 340 bread rolls at 24p each and 85 cakes at £1.35 each. Work out the total cost of the order.

9.Write these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: −1.4, 5/4, −6/5, 1.3, 0

10.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.

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.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.

13.A gym increases its membership price by 1/5. The original price is £60. Work out the new price.

14.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.

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