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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 digital timer truncates every time to 1 decimal place. It shows a swimmer's time for one length as 12.3 seconds. Using t for the swimmer's actual time in seconds, write down the error interval for t.
- 2.Write 0.005 in standard form.
- 3.An allotment is divided into two plots in the ratio 2:3. The larger plot has an area of 18 m². Work out the fraction of the total area taken up by the smaller plot.
- 4.In a box of counters the ratio of red counters to blue counters is 4 : 5. What fraction of the counters are blue?
- 5.Work out (3 × 5)²
- 6.A restaurant adds a service charge of 15% to a bill of £120. Work out the service charge.
- 7.Which of these is written correctly in standard form?
- 8.A carton of orange juice holds 1.35 litres. Ruby pours the juice equally into 4 identical glasses. Work out how much juice is in each glass, giving your answer as a fraction of a litre in its simplest form.
- 9.Put these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3.2 × 10⁴, 2.9 × 10⁵, 4.1 × 10³
- 10.In a youth club the number of girls is 2/3 of the number of boys. What fraction of the members of the club are girls?
- 11.Sam compares 0.6 and 5/8 by comparing the digit 6 with the digit 5, and says that 0.6 is the larger number. Convert 5/8 to a decimal to find the correct larger value.
- 12.Two fair six-sided dice are rolled together. One die is red and the other is blue. Work out how many different outcomes are possible.
- 13.Which one of these statements about negative numbers is true?
- 14.Last year a company made a profit of £5,200,000. Write this amount in standard form.
- 15.Work out (4 × 10⁻³) × (2 × 10⁵). Give your answer in standard form.
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