Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Work out (−3) × 4 + 10

2.Work out 3³ + 2⁴.

3.Write 0.875 as a fraction in its simplest form.

4.Jack buys 3 books, each costing £4.25, and pays with a £20 note. Work out how much change he receives.

5.In a photo album the ratio of colour photos to black-and-white photos is 9 : 4. Work out the number of black-and-white photos as a fraction of the number of colour photos.

6.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −9 ___ −4

7.A gym increases its membership price by 1/5. The original price is £60. Work out the new price.

8.A recipe uses 160 g of flour. Sam wants to increase the amount by 1/4. Work out the new amount of flour.

9.A bag holds 50 counters. 2/5 of them are red and the rest are blue. 5 red counters are then taken out of the bag. Work out the new ratio of red counters to blue counters. Give your answer in its simplest form.

10.Write 0.36 as a fraction in its simplest form.

11.A pack contains 20 stickers. Noah gives 1/5 of the pack to his sister. Work out how many stickers he gives away.

12.A concert hall has 300 seats. 20% of the seats are in the balcony. Work out how many of the seats are in the balcony.

13.Work out 4368 ÷ 12.

14.A student always writes the digits after the decimal point over a denominator of 100, whatever the number of decimal places. Using this wrong rule, they convert 0.9 to a fraction. Work out the correct fraction that 0.9 is equal to, giving your answer in its simplest form.

15.Work out the highest common factor of 20 and 32.