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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.Work out (−3) × 4 + 10
- 2.Write the fraction 9/25 as a decimal.
- 3.A bag holds 5 different sweets. Noah takes 2 of the sweets out of the bag together, so the order in which he takes them does not matter. Work out how many different pairs of sweets he could take.
- 4.Work out an estimate for 588 ÷ 31, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 5.A country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.
- 6.Work out 4π + 2π, giving your answer as a multiple of π.
- 7.A jar of jam costs £2.35. Tom buys 3 jars. He says the total cost is more than £7. Work out the exact total cost, and state whether Tom's claim is correct.
- 8.A square petri dish has an area of 121 mm². A scientist wants to know its side length. Work out the side length of the dish.
- 9.Work out 2/5 of 45.
- 10.The mass of a radioactive sample, in grams, n years after it was first weighed is modelled by M = 200 × (1/2)ⁿ. Work out the mass the model gives after 3 years.
- 11.Write the fraction 3/4 as a decimal.
- 12.Write 0.875 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 13.The attendance at a football match is 23,000, correct to the nearest thousand. Which of these attendances is not possible for the match?
- 14.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.
- 15.During one night on a mountain, four hikers each recorded the temperature they felt: Ben −6 °C, Priya −2 °C, Sam −9 °C, Alex 1 °C. Work out the difference between the coldest and the warmest of these four temperatures.
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