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Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation
Fifteen questions across the number statements at Foundation tier. Choose the non-calculator filter to rehearse Paper 1, which counts for a third of the marks.
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Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation
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- 1.The thickness of a sheet of card is 0.02384 cm. Write this thickness correct to 2 significant figures.
- 2.A number, n, is equal to 3.7 when rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for n.
- 3.Work out (3 × 10²) × (2 × 10⁵). Give your answer in standard form.
- 4.A water tank holds 80 litres when full. It currently contains 60 litres. Work out what fraction of the tank is empty.
- 5.A photograph uses 4 × 10⁶ bytes of storage. A memory card holds 3.2 × 10¹⁰ bytes. Work out how many of these photographs the card can hold. Give your answer in standard form.
- 6.A florist has 5 different flowers. Freya picks 3 of them to make a small bunch, and the order in which she picks them does not matter. Work out how many different bunches she could make.
- 7.Bella's electricity supplier charges 28.5p per unit (kWh). Last month she used 340 units. Work out the total cost, giving your answer in pounds.
- 8.Which of these numbers rounds to 0.048 when rounded to 2 significant figures?
- 9.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.
- 10.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.
- 11.A cyclist rides at a steady speed of 8 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.
- 12.A crowd of 8,400 people is recorded correct to the nearest 100. Work out the smallest possible number of people in the crowd.
- 13.The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km. Write this distance in standard form, in kilometres.
- 14.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3/5, 0.55, 58%
- 15.A bag holds 5 different sweets. Noah takes 2 of the sweets out of the bag together, so the order in which he takes them does not matter. Work out how many different pairs of sweets he could take.
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