Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Write down the value of 7⁰

2.Round 6.283 to 1 significant figure.

3.Work out an estimate for 6.4 × 3.9, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number.

4.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?

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

6.Nadia has £84. She spends 3/7 of it on a jacket and the rest on a bag. Work out the ratio of the amount spent on the jacket to the amount spent on the bag, in its simplest form.

7.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.

8.A photography studio offers 4 backdrops and 3 outfits for a portrait session. The plain grey backdrop, one of the 4 backdrops, cannot be used with the formal suit outfit, one of the 3 outfits. Work out how many different backdrop-and-outfit combinations are possible.

9.Tickets for a fairground ride are sold in packs of 6. Tokens for the dodgems are sold in packs of 10. Yusuf wants to buy the smallest number of packs of each so that he ends up with the same number of ride tickets as dodgem tokens. Work out how many ride tickets that is.

10.Write down the value of 3⁰

11.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 3/10 ___ 0.3

12.Work out 6² − 4².

13.Work out −6 × (−3).

14.In a choir, 2/9 of the members are boys and the rest are girls. Write down the ratio of girls to boys, in its simplest form.

15.A rectangular tile measures 45 cm by 0.6 m. Work out its area, in square centimetres.