Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.A jacket normally costs £65. In a sale it is reduced by 20%, and the shop then takes a further £5 off at the till. Work out the final price.

2.A quantity surveyor calculates a length as 24.6851 m. Round this length to 2 decimal places.

3.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3/5, 0.55, 58%

4.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.

5.Light travels at 3 × 10⁸ metres per second. Work out how far light travels in 2 × 10⁻⁶ seconds. Give your answer in standard form.

6.Josh buys 7 pencils at 85p each. He pays with a £10 note. Work out his change.

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

8.A café offers sandwiches with one filling from 5 choices and one type of bread from 4 choices. Cheese and mustard, which is one of the 5 fillings, is not available on gluten-free bread, which is one of the 4 breads. Work out how many different sandwiches are possible.

9.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.

10.Write 0.00072 in standard form.

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

12.A café buys 18 boxes of teabags at £3.45 each, and sells all the teabags for £108 in total. Work out the café's profit.

13.A number, y, is equal to 8.2 when rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for y.

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 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.