Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Work out −6 × (−3).

2.A pizza is cut into 12 equal slices. Ben eats 5 slices and Mia eats 3 slices. What fraction of the pizza is left, giving your answer in its simplest form?

3.Write 0.45 as a fraction in its simplest form.

4.A carton of orange juice holds 1.35 litres. Ruby pours the juice equally into 4 identical glasses. Work out how much juice is in each glass, giving your answer as a fraction of a litre in its simplest form.

5.Two-digit numbers are formed using the digits 2, 5, 7 and 8, and each digit may be used only once in a number. Work out how many of these two-digit numbers are even.

6.Work out 35% of 180.

7.Work out 2 × 3 × 5 + 1 and decide whether the result is a prime number.

8.A necklace is made from red beads and gold beads in the ratio 7 : 3. What fraction of the beads are gold?

9.In a class, 1/3 of the pupils are girls. There are 12 girls in the class. Work out how many pupils are in the class.

10.A box holds 140 pens. 25% of the pens are red. Work out how many of the pens are red.

11.Which of these decimals lies between 1/4 and 2/5?

12.Work out √49

13.A charity shop buys a coat for £24 and sells it for a profit that is 3/8 of the buying price. Work out the selling price.

14.Work out 0.6 × 0.04.

15.A café is planning its lunch menu. It will offer one soup from 3 choices and one sandwich from 4 choices, but the mushroom soup, one of the 3 soups, will only be served with the cheese sandwich, one of the 4 sandwiches, on a normal day. Work out how many different soup-and-sandwich combinations are available on a normal day.