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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.Which of these units would be most appropriate to use when stating the mass of a small car?
- 2.Write down the value of 3⁰
- 3.Work out 3/4 − 5/12 exactly, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 4.Work out 100 − 4 × 5²
- 5.A choir has sopranos, altos and tenors in the ratio 6 : 4 : 5. What fraction of the choir is not tenors?
- 6.The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km. Write this distance in standard form, in kilometres.
- 7.The mass of a radioactive sample, in grams, n years after it was first weighed is modelled by M = 200 × (1/2)ⁿ. Work out the mass the model gives after 3 years.
- 8.Work out the value of √(16 + 9)
- 9.Work out an estimate for 37 × 84, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 10.Work out 1/2 of 1/4 of 80.
- 11.Work out (−2)³ + (−3)² − (−4)
- 12.A tank contains 120 litres of water. Water is drained out at a rate of 8 litres per minute for 6 minutes, and then a hose adds 15 litres. Work out how much water is left in the tank.
- 13.Write 200 as a product of its prime factors, using index notation.
- 14.The mass of a parcel is 3 kg, correct to the nearest kilogram. Which of these masses is not possible for the parcel?
- 15.A space probe is 7.5 × 10⁸ km from Earth. Write this distance as an ordinary number.
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