Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Work out √25 + 4² − 12 ÷ 3

2.A café offers sandwiches with one filling from 5 choices and one type of bread from 4 choices. Cheese and mustard, which is one of the 5 fillings, is not available on gluten-free bread, which is one of the 4 breads. Work out how many different sandwiches are possible.

3.Write the fraction 9/25 as a decimal.

4.On one night in Manchester the temperature at 3 am was 8 °C below zero and at 9 am it was 3 °C below zero. Write down the warmer of the two readings.

5.Grace drinks 1/3 of a bottle of water in the morning and another 1/3 of the same bottle in the afternoon. Work out what fraction of the bottle she has drunk altogether.

6.Work out 15% of £40, using 10% and 5%.

7.£60 is shared between Amir, Bo and Chen in the ratio 1:2:3. Work out the fraction of the £60 that Amir and Bo receive together.

8.Work out (3 × 5)²

9.Work out 5/6 × 2/9, giving your answer in its simplest form.

10.Work out an estimate for 6.8 × 41, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.

11.In the number 3.472, work out the value of the digit 7.

12.Work out 3 1/5 + 1 2/3. Give your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.

13.n is a whole number and 2 ≤ n < 6. Write down all the possible values of n.

14.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.

15.Work out the total cost of 3 pens at 45p each and one notebook at £2.35. Give your answer in pounds.