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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.Is 120 divisible by 5? Give a reason for your answer.
- 2.A quiz has 50 questions. Freya answers 10% of them incorrectly. Work out how many questions she answers incorrectly.
- 3.Round 0.006482 to 2 significant figures.
- 4.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.
- 5.A block of butter has a mass of 250 g, correct to the nearest 10 g. Using m for the mass of the block in grams, write down the error interval for m.
- 6.The diameter of an artificial silk fibre is 4 × 10⁻⁶ metres. One nanometre is 10⁻⁹ metres. Work out the diameter of the fibre in nanometres.
- 7.Work out an estimate for 6.8 × 41, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 8.Two lighthouses flash at the start of the same minute. The first lighthouse flashes every 8 minutes and the second flashes every 12 minutes. Work out how many minutes it will be until they next flash together.
- 9.In a science experiment, the temperature of a liquid is recorded as 18.6 °C, correct to the nearest 0.2 °C. Write down the error interval for the actual temperature, T °C.
- 10.Work out −6 × (−3).
- 11.Four weather stations each recorded their lowest overnight temperature. Which of these readings is the lowest?
- 12.Work out an estimate for 37 × 84, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 13.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: −0.6, 0.45, −0.15, 0.5, −0.09
- 14.Work out 3³ + 2⁴.
- 15.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 3/10 ___ 0.3
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