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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.Given that 2⁵ = 32, work out 2⁶.
- 2.Work out the value of √(16 + 9)
- 3.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.
- 4.A shop buys boxes of pens for £4 each. It sells each box on to a school for £3 more than it paid, and charges an extra £2 delivery fee for the whole order. A school orders 5 boxes. Work out the total cost of the order.
- 5.A bag holds 5 different sweets. Noah takes 2 of the sweets out of the bag together, so the order in which he takes them does not matter. Work out how many different pairs of sweets he could take.
- 6.A recipe uses 160 g of flour. Sam wants to increase the amount by 1/4. Work out the new amount of flour.
- 7.A country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.
- 8.The diameter of an artificial silk fibre is 4 × 10⁻⁶ metres. One nanometre is 10⁻⁹ metres. Work out the diameter of the fibre in nanometres.
- 9.Work out an estimate for 37 × 84, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 10.Freya types 4² + 3² into her calculator and writes down 49. Work out the correct value of 4² + 3².
- 11.Work out 6² − 4².
- 12.Four weather stations each recorded their lowest overnight temperature. Which of these readings is the lowest?
- 13.Simplify x⁷ × x⁴, giving your answer as a single power of x.
- 14.In a science experiment, the temperature of a liquid is recorded as 18.6 °C, correct to the nearest 0.2 °C. Write down the error interval for the actual temperature, T °C.
- 15.Work out √225 ÷ 3.
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