Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.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.

2.The rainfall in a town during April is recorded as 62.4 mm, correct to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for the actual rainfall, r mm.

3.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.

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

5.A car is hired from 10:00 on Monday until 16:00 on Thursday. Work out the total length of the hire, in hours.

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

7.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.

8.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.

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

10.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 7/20, 0.3, 32%

11.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?

12.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.

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

14.A cube-shaped storage tank has a volume of 15,625 cubic centimetres. Work out the length of one edge of the tank.

15.Petrol costs £1.48 per litre. Sam buys 35 litres and pays with three £20 notes. Work out his change.