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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.A digital timer truncates every time to 1 decimal place. It shows a swimmer's time for one length as 12.3 seconds. Using t for the swimmer's actual time in seconds, write down the error interval for t.
- 2.Write 90 as a product of its prime factors.
- 3.Work out (2 × 10³) × (3 × 10⁴). Give your answer in standard form.
- 4.A pizza is cut into 12 equal slices. Ben eats 5 slices and Mia eats 3 slices. What fraction of the pizza is left, giving your answer in its simplest form?
- 5.Write 0.35 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
- 6.Work out 3³ + 2⁴.
- 7.A rectangular tile measures 45 cm by 0.6 m. Work out its area, in square centimetres.
- 8.A number is divided by 5, then 6 is subtracted, giving the result −1. Work out the number.
- 9.At a bus station one bus leaves every 6 minutes and another leaves every 9 minutes. The two buses leave together at the start of the day. Work out how long it is until they next leave together.
- 10.Round 0.0759 to 2 decimal places.
- 11.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.
- 12.A cinema has 21 rows of seats with 29 seats in each row. Work out an estimate for the number of people the cinema can hold, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 13.A student works out the exact area of a circle with radius 4 cm by squaring the radius but forgetting to multiply by π. Work out the correct exact area of the circle, in terms of π.
- 14.Work out an estimate for 397 ÷ 21, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 15.Write the fraction 9/25 as a decimal.
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