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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.Simplify 2³ × 2⁴, giving your answer as a single power of 2.
- 2.Work out 5/6 × 2/9, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 3.In standard form, 2,000 is written as 2 × 10ⁿ. Write down the value of n.
- 4.A shortbread recipe uses flour and butter in the ratio 5 : 2. Yuki changes the recipe by doubling the amount of butter but keeping the amount of flour the same. Work out the fraction of the new mixture that is butter.
- 5.Grace buys three items costing £9.95, £19.90 and £4.99. Work out an estimate for the total cost, by rounding each price to the nearest pound.
- 6.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.
- 7.Work out an estimate for 89 + 52, by rounding each number to the nearest 10.
- 8.Work out 1/2 of 1/4 of 80.
- 9.Work out an estimate for 8,900 ÷ 29, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 10.A board game has 5 different character pieces and 4 different colour tokens. The dragon piece can only be used with the gold token. Work out how many different combinations of one character piece and one colour token are possible.
- 11.Work out 250 ÷ 1000.
- 12.Is 120 divisible by 5? Give a reason for your answer.
- 13.Work out an estimate for 6.4 × 3.9, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number.
- 14.A jug holds 1.8 litres of juice. Priya pours out 3/4 of a litre to fill a glass. Work out how much juice is left in the jug, in millilitres.
- 15.In a fruit crate the ratio of oranges to lemons is 5 : 6. What fraction of the fruit in the crate are lemons?
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