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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.Freya types 4² + 3² into her calculator and writes down 49. Work out the correct value of 4² + 3².
- 2.Work out √(4 × 9)
- 3.A florist has 5 different flowers. Freya picks 3 of them to make a small bunch, and the order in which she picks them does not matter. Work out how many different bunches she could make.
- 4.In a chess club, 3/8 of the members are girls and the rest are boys. Write down the ratio of girls to boys.
- 5.A minibus can carry 16 passengers. A school is taking 179 pupils on a trip. By rounding 179 to the nearest 10, work out an estimate for the number of minibuses needed, given that the school cannot hire part of a minibus.
- 6.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 6/11 ___ 4/11
- 7.Work out 5⁰ + 5¹ + 5²
- 8.A space probe is 7.5 × 10⁸ km from Earth. Write this distance as an ordinary number.
- 9.Rice is sold in a 400 g bag for £1.12 and in a 1.5 kg bag for £3.90. Work out how much less the rice in the larger bag costs per kilogram.
- 10.Write down the decimal that is equal to 3/5.
- 11.Work out (2/3)² + (1/2)². Give your answer as a fraction.
- 12.The length of a pencil is 8.4 cm, correct to 1 decimal place. Using L for the length of the pencil in centimetres, write down the error interval for L.
- 13.Jack buys 3 books, each costing £4.25, and pays with a £20 note. Work out how much change he receives.
- 14.The thickness of a sheet of card is 0.02384 cm. Write this thickness correct to 2 significant figures.
- 15.Write 0.875 as a fraction in its simplest form.
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