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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.A charity bake sale sells 187 cakes at £2.95 each. By rounding each number to 1 significant figure, work out an estimate for the total amount raised.
- 2.A gym increases its membership price by 1/5. The original price is £60. Work out the new price.
- 3.By listing systematically, work out how many two-digit multiples of 5 can be made using the digits 0, 3 and 5, if each digit can be used at most once and the number cannot start with 0.
- 4.A recipe uses 0.625 kg of flour. Write this mass as a fraction of a kilogram, in its simplest form.
- 5.Write these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: −1.4, 5/4, −6/5, 1.3, 0
- 6.A speed camera measures a car's speed as 34 mph, correct to the nearest mph. Work out the smallest possible actual speed of the car, in mph.
- 7.3/5 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.
- 8.Put these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3.2 × 10⁴, 2.9 × 10⁵, 4.1 × 10³
- 9.A company's turnover is 5.6 × 10⁷ pounds, spread evenly across 3.5 × 10² shops. Work out the average turnover per shop, in standard form.
- 10.Work out 8% of £250.
- 11.Write these fractions in order, starting with the smallest: 2/3, 3/5, 5/6, 1/2
- 12.After a price increase of 10%, a laptop costs £330. Work out the original price.
- 13.A recipe states that a cake needs 200 g of flour, correct to the nearest 25 g. Work out the smallest possible mass of flour, in grams, that could actually be used.
- 14.Which of these is written correctly in standard form?
- 15.Write these decimals in order, starting with the smallest: 0.6, 0.55, 0.601, 0.5, 0.56
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