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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

Maths · GCSE Foundation · Number · Non-calculator · 15 questions

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1.Work out 2/5 of 45.
(a)36
(b)27
(c)18
(d)9
2.A quiz has 50 questions. Freya answers 10% of them incorrectly. Work out how many questions she answers incorrectly.
(a)5
(b)10
(c)500
(d)45
3.Work out 5⁰ + 5¹ + 5²
(a)125
(b)30
(c)31
(d)35
4.Work out (−36) ÷ (−6) × 2
(a)3
(b)6
(c)12
(d)−12
5.Work out 8% of £250.
(a)£25
(b)£2
(c)£200
(d)£20
6.A cinema has 21 rows of seats with 29 seats in each row. Work out an estimate for the number of people the cinema can hold, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
(a)6,000
(b)60
(c)50
(d)600
7.Work out √(4 × 9)
(a)5
(b)18
(c)36
(d)6
8.Write down the reciprocal of 5/8
(a)−8/5
(b)8/5
(c)5/8
(d)3/8
9.Write 0.35 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
(a)7/25
(b)35/10
(c)3/10
(d)7/20
10.Work out an estimate for 8,900 ÷ 29, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
(a)300
(b)307
(c)450
(d)3,000
11.Which of these numbers is the largest: −9, −7, −4, −2?
(a)−7
(b)−4
(c)−2
(d)−9
12.Simplify 3² ÷ 3⁵, giving your answer as a single power of 3.
(a)3⁷
(b)3³
(c)3⁻³
(d)3¹⁰
13.n is a whole number and 2 ≤ n < 6. Write down all the possible values of n.
(a)2, 3, 4, 5
(b)3, 4, 5
(c)1, 2, 3, 4, 5
(d)2, 3, 4, 5, 6
14.Work out 250 ÷ 1000.
(a)25
(b)0.025
(c)2.5
(d)0.25
15.Write '3.2 million' as a number in figures.
(a)320,000
(b)3,002,000
(c)32,000,000
(d)3,200,000

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