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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.In a classroom the ratio of boys to girls is 3 : 4. What fraction of the class are boys?
- 2.Write down the value of 7⁰
- 3.At midday the temperature in the Lake District was 3 °C. By midnight it had fallen to −6 °C. Work out the fall in temperature.
- 4.Write 60 as a product of its prime factors, using index notation.
- 5.A student writes 0.08 as the fraction 8/10, reading the 8 as if it stood in the tenths column and ignoring the zero. Work out the correct fraction that 0.08 is equal to, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 6.Write 0.875 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 7.Write down the value of 3⁰
- 8.An allotment plot is divided into vegetables and flowers in the ratio 9 : 4. A third of the vegetable section is used for potatoes. What fraction of the whole plot is potatoes?
- 9.Work out 2 × (−3 + 7)
- 10.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −2/3 ___ −5/6
- 11.A recipe uses 0.625 kg of flour. Write this mass as a fraction of a kilogram, in its simplest form.
- 12.Work out ∛(−27) + ∛8
- 13.Work out an estimate for 6.4 × 3.9, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number.
- 14.Work out (−6) + (−4) × 3
- 15.Leah measures the length of her classroom with a tape measure marked in centimetres. She writes the length down as 7.3157 m. Give a reason why this is not an appropriate degree of accuracy.
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