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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.A grain of fine sand has a mass of 0.001 grams. Write this mass in standard form.
- 2.Last year a company made a profit of £5,200,000. Write this amount in standard form.
- 3.Work out 36 ÷ (2 × 3)
- 4.A spreadsheet shows that 812 − 397 = 315. Work out an estimate for 812 − 397, by rounding each number to the nearest 100, to check whether the spreadsheet's answer is reasonable.
- 5.The density of a type of plastic is 0.9 g/cm³. Work out this density in kg/m³.
- 6.A shop buys boxes of pens for £4 each. It sells each box on to a school for £3 more than it paid, and charges an extra £2 delivery fee for the whole order. A school orders 5 boxes. Work out the total cost of the order.
- 7.The number 72 can be written as 2³ × 3², and the number 108 can be written as 2² × 3³. Work out the highest common factor of 72 and 108.
- 8.At a bus station one bus leaves every 6 minutes and another leaves every 9 minutes. The two buses leave together at the start of the day. Work out how long it is until they next leave together.
- 9.Write 0.875 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 10.Find the missing number: 17 × ▢ = 391
- 11.Write down the reciprocal of 0.2
- 12.Work out (2 × 10³) × (3 × 10⁴). Give your answer in standard form.
- 13.A spinner has 4 colours and a coin has 2 sides. Work out how many different outcomes are possible when the spinner is spun once and the coin is tossed once.
- 14.Work out 1 1/2 ÷ 3/4 exactly, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 15.Put these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3.2 × 10⁴, 2.9 × 10⁵, 4.1 × 10³
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