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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.Last year a company made a profit of £5,200,000. Write this amount in standard form.
- 2.Insert one pair of brackets into 2 + 3 × 5 − 1 so that the calculation is equal to 24. Which calculation is correct?
- 3.Amelia estimates 48 × 21 by working out 50 × 20 = 1,000. Work out whether her estimate is an under-estimate or an over-estimate, and by how much.
- 4.Write 12 as a product of its prime factors.
- 5.In a classroom the ratio of boys to girls is 3 : 4. What fraction of the class are boys?
- 6.A charity shop buys a coat for £24 and sells it for a profit that is 3/8 of the buying price. Work out the selling price.
- 7.The attendance at a football match is 23,000, correct to the nearest thousand. Which of these attendances is not possible for the match?
- 8.A box stands on a table. The box exerts a force of 240 N on the table, and the base of the box has an area of 0.8 m². Work out the pressure the box exerts on the table, in N/m².
- 9.Freya types 4² + 3² into her calculator and writes down 49. Work out the correct value of 4² + 3².
- 10.Work out how many factors 36 has.
- 11.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 0.45 ___ 0.5
- 12.A circle has a diameter of 10 cm. Work out the exact circumference of the circle, in terms of π.
- 13.Round 24,681 to the nearest 1,000.
- 14.A spreadsheet shows that 812 − 397 = 315. Work out an estimate for 812 − 397, by rounding each number to the nearest 100, to check whether the spreadsheet's answer is reasonable.
- 15.Write down the decimal that is equal to 3/5.
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