Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Work out √49

2.Work out −4.5 + 2.8.

3.Four friends share a restaurant bill of £53.90 equally. A calculator gives each share as 13.475. Work out how much each friend should pay.

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.Round 6.283 to 1 significant figure.

6.Work out 4368 ÷ 12.

7.Two bags of mixed nuts are combined. Bag A has peanuts and cashews in the ratio 2 : 3. Bag B has peanuts and cashews in the ratio 1 : 4. Both bags contain the same total number of nuts. Work out the fraction of the combined mixture that is peanuts.

8.Round 0.006852 to 2 significant figures.

9.Work out 2⁵.

10.Work out 5⁰ + 5¹ + 5²

11.Work out 1 − 1/2 − 1/4 − 1/8 − 1/16. Give your answer as a fraction.

12.Priya has 24 red beads and 36 blue beads. She makes identical bracelets, using every bead and with none left over. Work out the greatest number of bracelets she can make.

13.Work out 3 + 4 × 2²

14.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.

15.Rice is sold in a 400 g bag for £1.12 and in a 1.5 kg bag for £3.90. Work out how much less the rice in the larger bag costs per kilogram.