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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 shop buys boxes of pens for £4 each. It sells each box on to a school for £3 more than it paid, and charges an extra £2 delivery fee for the whole order. A school orders 5 boxes. Work out the total cost of the order.
- 2.Sam rounds 0.070268 to 3 significant figures and writes 0.0703. Which of these statements is correct?
- 3.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.
- 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 plank of wood is 5 1/4 m long. Pieces of length 3/4 m are cut from it. Work out how many complete pieces of 3/4 m can be cut from the plank.
- 6.Which of these numbers rounds to 0.048 when rounded to 2 significant figures?
- 7.A charity raffle sells 240 tickets at £1.85 each. 40% of the money raised is given to a local hospital. Work out how much money the hospital receives.
- 8.Work out (5 × 10⁴) ÷ (2 × 10⁻²). Give your answer in standard form.
- 9.To estimate the cost of buying 38.7 m of rope at £21.40 per metre, both numbers are first rounded to 1 significant figure. Work out the estimate.
- 10.Round 0.006482 to 2 significant figures.
- 11.Work out (3 × 10²) × (2 × 10⁵). Give your answer in standard form.
- 12.A recipe uses 160 g of flour. Sam wants to increase the amount by 1/4. Work out the new amount of flour.
- 13.A number, y, is equal to 8.2 when rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for y.
- 14.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.
- 15.Work out (6 × 10⁷) + (3 × 10⁶). Give your answer in standard form.
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