Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Maya buys 4 plants at £3.20 each and a bag of compost for £6.75. She pays with a £20 note. Work out her change.

2.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3/5, 0.55, 58%

3.Work out (−36) ÷ (−6) × 2

4.Work out √49

5.A country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.

6.A number, n, is a multiple of both 6 and 9. Work out the smallest possible value of n that is greater than 20.

7.At a book fair the ratio of fiction books to non-fiction books is 4 : 5. Of the non-fiction books, 3/5 are about history. Work out the fraction of all the books at the fair that are history books.

8.Nadia has £84. She spends 3/7 of it on a jacket and the rest on a bag. Work out the ratio of the amount spent on the jacket to the amount spent on the bag, in its simplest form.

9.Which of these numbers rounds to 0.048 when rounded to 2 significant figures?

10.A company sells 4 × 10³ items per day, each priced at £2.50. It operates for 3 × 10² days a year. Work out the company's total revenue for the year. Give your answer in standard form.

11.Find the missing number: ▢ ÷ 15 = 24

12.Work out (−6) + (−4) × 3

13.A café sells ice cream in three flavours: vanilla, mango and pistachio. Isla buys a cone with two scoops, using two different flavours, one for the bottom scoop and one for the top scoop. Work out how many different cones she could buy.

14.Freya types 4² + 3² into her calculator and writes down 49. Work out the correct value of 4² + 3².

15.A charity shop buys a coat for £24 and sells it for a profit that is 3/8 of the buying price. Work out the selling price.