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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.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.
- 2.Work out the value of 2⁻²
- 3.Find the missing number: ▢ ÷ 15 = 24
- 4.Work out 36 ÷ (2 × 3)
- 5.A photograph uses 4 × 10⁶ bytes of storage. A memory card holds 3.2 × 10¹⁰ bytes. Work out how many of these photographs the card can hold. Give your answer in standard form.
- 6.Simplify 2³ × 2⁴, giving your answer as a single power of 2.
- 7.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.
- 8.The thickness of a sheet of card is 0.02384 cm. Write this thickness correct to 2 significant figures.
- 9.Work out (−3) × 4 + 10
- 10.Write 45,000 in standard form.
- 11.A rectangular field measures 19.6 m by 48.3 m. Work out an estimate for the area of the field, by rounding each length to 1 significant figure.
- 12.Work out 1 − 1/2 − 1/4 − 1/8 − 1/16. Give your answer as a fraction.
- 13.A concrete mix is made from cement and sand in the ratio 3 : 5 by mass. A builder mixes 96 kg of concrete. Work out the mass of cement in the mix.
- 14.Write the fraction 47/50 as a decimal.
- 15.Work out (5 + 2) × 3²
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