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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

Maths · GCSE Foundation · Number · Non-calculator · 15 questions

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1.Round 3.947 to 2 decimal places.
(a)4.0
(b)3.94
(c)3.95
(d)3.9
2.Work out (−2)³ + (−3)² − (−4)
(a)5
(b)−13
(c)−3
(d)21
3.Work out the value of √64.
(a)16
(b)4
(c)32
(d)8
4.A café is planning its lunch menu. It will offer one soup from 3 choices and one sandwich from 4 choices, but the mushroom soup, one of the 3 soups, will only be served with the cheese sandwich, one of the 4 sandwiches, on a normal day. Work out how many different soup-and-sandwich combinations are available on a normal day.
(a)11
(b)8
(c)12
(d)9
5.Priya adds 3.6 and 0.45 on paper and writes down 3.65 as her answer. Work out the correct value of 3.6 + 0.45.
(a)3.65
(b)4.05
(c)4.5
(d)0.81
6.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.
(a)800 m²
(b)70 m²
(c)1,000 m²
(d)140 m²
7.A tin of paint has a mass of 5.672 kg. Round this mass to 1 decimal place.
(a)5.0 kg
(b)5.6 kg
(c)5.7 kg
(d)6.0 kg
8.In a car park the ratio of vans to cars is 2 : 7. Work out the number of vans as a fraction of the number of cars.
(a)7/9
(b)2/7
(c)7/2
(d)2/9
9.Work out √144
(a)72
(b)36
(c)12
(d)14
10.Work out 20 − 8 ÷ 2 + 1
(a)16
(b)15
(c)7
(d)17
11.Work out the value of $2^{3} + 3^{2}$ .
(a)17
(b)72
(c)12
(d)−1
12.Work out 3³ + 2⁴.
(a)35
(b)25
(c)43
(d)432
13.Simplify x⁷ × x⁴, giving your answer as a single power of x.
(a)x¹¹
(b)11x
(c)x³
(d)x²⁸
14.Work out the highest common factor of 15 and 25.
(a)75
(b)5
(c)15
(d)3
15.Work out 3/8 of 96.
(a)72
(b)12
(c)32
(d)36

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