Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Work out 5/6 × 2/9, giving your answer in its simplest form.

2.Which of these is written correctly in standard form?

3.Work out an estimate for 37 × 84, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.

4.A café offers 3 types of soup and 4 types of bread roll. Work out how many different combinations of one soup and one bread roll are possible.

5.Work out √144 − 2 × 3 + √25

6.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 6/11 ___ 4/11

7.Oliver uses his calculator to work out 25% of 80 and writes down 320. Without using a calculator, work out the correct value of 25% of 80.

8.Simplify (y³)⁴, giving your answer as a single power of y.

9.Work out ⁴√16

10.Simplify 5⁻² × 5⁴, giving your answer as a single power of 5.

11.During one night on a mountain, four hikers each recorded the temperature they felt: Ben −6 °C, Priya −2 °C, Sam −9 °C, Alex 1 °C. Work out the difference between the coldest and the warmest of these four temperatures.

12.A garden path is measured by Jon as 12 m, correct to the nearest metre, and by Mia as 12.6 m, correct to the nearest 0.1 m. Which statement about the two measurements is correct?

13.Work out 3π − π, giving your answer as a multiple of π.

14.Work out 3/7 × 14/9. Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

15.A gardener has 42 tulip bulbs and 56 daffodil bulbs. She plants them in rows, with every row containing the same number of tulip bulbs and the same number of daffodil bulbs, and no bulbs left over. Work out the greatest number of rows she can plant.