Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Which of these is equal to 5³?

2.Work out 250 ÷ 1000.

3.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?

4.Which of these decimals lies between 1/4 and 2/5?

5.A box holds 140 pens. 25% of the pens are red. Work out how many of the pens are red.

6.Work out (5 + 2) × 3²

7.Simplify (y³)⁴, giving your answer as a single power of y.

8.A number, y, is equal to 8.2 when rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for y.

9.A window display has red baubles, gold baubles and green baubles in the ratio 4 : 5 : 6. What fraction of the baubles are not green?

10.Write '3.2 million' as a number in figures.

11.A tin of paint has a mass of 5.672 kg. Round this mass to 1 decimal place.

12.Work out 3 + 4 × 2²

13.A recipe uses 160 g of flour. Sam wants to increase the amount by 1/4. Work out the new amount of flour.

14.Write 200 as a product of its prime factors, using index notation.

15.A gardener has 42 tulip bulbs and 56 daffodil bulbs. She plants them in rows, with every row containing the same number of tulip bulbs and the same number of daffodil bulbs, and no bulbs left over. Work out the greatest number of rows she can plant.