Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Write 0.36 as a fraction in its simplest form.

2.Work out (−36) ÷ (−6) × 2

3.A café is planning its lunch menu. It will offer one soup from 3 choices and one sandwich from 4 choices, but the mushroom soup, one of the 3 soups, will only be served with the cheese sandwich, one of the 4 sandwiches, on a normal day. Work out how many different soup-and-sandwich combinations are available on a normal day.

4.A carton of orange juice holds 1.35 litres. Ruby pours the juice equally into 4 identical glasses. Work out how much juice is in each glass, giving your answer as a fraction of a litre in its simplest form.

5.A cake recipe needs 3/4 of a kilogram of sugar. Aisha wants to make half the recipe. Work out how much sugar she needs, giving your answer as a fraction of a kilogram in its simplest form.

6.A carpenter has a plank of wood 4.8 m long. She cuts off 3 pieces, each 0.9 m long, to make shelves. Work out the length of wood remaining.

7.Work out 1 1/2 ÷ 3/4 exactly, giving your answer in its simplest form.

8.Work out 0.6 × 0.04.

9.Write the fraction 47/50 as a decimal.

10.Work out √49

11.Work out an estimate for 113 + 491, by rounding each number to the nearest 100.

12.In a fruit basket the ratio of bananas to oranges is 2 : 5. What fraction of the fruit are oranges?

13.Which of these units would be most appropriate to use when stating the mass of a small car?

14.Work out 35% of 180.

15.Work out an estimate for 89 + 52, by rounding each number to the nearest 10.