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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.Four locations each record a temperature one winter morning. Which of these temperatures is the coldest?
- 2.A roll of ribbon is 8.4 m long. Ribbon is cut into pieces that are each 0.6 m long. Work out how many complete pieces can be cut from the roll.
- 3.The population of a planet is 8 × 10⁹. Write this population as an ordinary number.
- 4.A newspaper reports that 48,000 people attended a festival. The figure is correct to the nearest thousand. Which statement about the number of people who attended must be true?
- 5.Write 45,000 in standard form.
- 6.Work out (2 × 10³) × (3 × 10⁴). Give your answer in standard form.
- 7.Rice is sold in a 400 g bag for £1.12 and in a 1.5 kg bag for £3.90. Work out how much less the rice in the larger bag costs per kilogram.
- 8.In standard form, 2,000 is written as 2 × 10ⁿ. Write down the value of n.
- 9.Two lighthouses flash at the start of the same minute. The first lighthouse flashes every 8 minutes and the second flashes every 12 minutes. Work out how many minutes it will be until they next flash together.
- 10.Round 592.5 to the nearest 10.
- 11.A circle has a diameter of 10 cm. Work out the exact circumference of the circle, in terms of π.
- 12.Write down the decimal that is equal to 3/5.
- 13.Work out 36 ÷ (2 × 3)
- 14.Work out the lowest common multiple of 4 and 6.
- 15.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.
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