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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.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: 7/8, 0.8, 78%, 17/20
- 2.Write down the reciprocal of 5/8
- 3.Zoe worked out 3/8 + 1/8 by adding the numerators and the denominators, and got 4/16. Work out the correct value of 3/8 + 1/8, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 4.Simplify (y³)⁴, giving your answer as a single power of y.
- 5.A recipe for one cake needs 2/3 of a cup of sugar. Priya has 3 1/2 cups of sugar. Work out how many complete cakes she can make.
- 6.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.
- 7.In a school, 3/5 of the students study French. Of these students, 2/3 also study Spanish. What fraction of all the students study both French and Spanish?
- 8.A cake recipe needs 3/4 of a kilogram of sugar. Aisha wants to make half the recipe. Work out how much sugar she needs, giving your answer as a fraction of a kilogram in its simplest form.
- 9.Given that 2⁵ = 32, work out 2⁶.
- 10.Write 0.06 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 11.A grain of fine sand has a mass of 0.001 grams. Write this mass in standard form.
- 12.Work out 2/5 + 1/4, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 13.A number, x, is truncated (not rounded) to 1 decimal place and the result is 6.2. Write down the error interval for x.
- 14.A plumber charges a call-out fee of £45 and then £28 for each hour she works. She is at a house from 09:15 until 12:45. Work out the total charge.
- 15.Write these fractions in order, starting with the smallest: 2/3, 3/5, 5/6, 1/2
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