Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.A café is planning its lunch menu. It will offer one soup from 3 choices and one sandwich from 4 choices, but the mushroom soup, one of the 3 soups, will only be served with the cheese sandwich, one of the 4 sandwiches, on a normal day. Work out how many different soup-and-sandwich combinations are available on a normal day.

2.Work out 20 − 8 ÷ 2 + 1

3.Work out 3 + 4 × 2²

4.In a class, 1/3 of the pupils are girls. There are 12 girls in the class. Work out how many pupils are in the class.

5.A rectangular plywood panel measures 2.4 m by 0.75 m. Work out the area of the panel in square metres, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

6.In a music collection, the ratio of pop albums to rock albums is 5 : 3. Work out the number of rock albums as a fraction of the number of pop albums.

7.A circle has a radius of 3 cm. Which of these is the exact area of the circle?

8.Work out 8% of £250.

9.Write the fraction 3/4 as a decimal.

10.Amelia estimates 48 × 21 by working out 50 × 20 = 1,000. Work out whether her estimate is an under-estimate or an over-estimate, and by how much.

11.Work out an estimate for 2.9² + 3.1², by rounding each number to the nearest whole number.

12.An allotment plot is divided into vegetables and flowers in the ratio 9 : 4. A third of the vegetable section is used for potatoes. What fraction of the whole plot is potatoes?

13.Work out the value of ∛8.

14.Work out 3/8 of 96.

15.Work out an estimate for 588 ÷ 31, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.