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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.In a choir, 2/9 of the members are boys and the rest are girls. Write down the ratio of girls to boys, in its simplest form.
- 2.A train leaves Leeds at 14:35. The journey takes 1 hour 50 minutes. Work out the time the train arrives. Give your answer using the 24-hour clock.
- 3.Work out 1 − 1/2 − 1/4 − 1/8 − 1/16. Give your answer as a fraction.
- 4.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: −0.6, 0.45, −0.15, 0.5, −0.09
- 5.A semicircle has a diameter of 8 cm. Work out the exact area of the semicircle, in terms of π.
- 6.In a class, 1/3 of the pupils are girls. There are 12 girls in the class. Work out how many pupils are in the class.
- 7.A tin of paint has a mass of 5.672 kg. Round this mass to 1 decimal place.
- 8.A window display has red baubles, gold baubles and green baubles in the ratio 4 : 5 : 6. What fraction of the baubles are not green?
- 9.Work out an estimate for 8,900 ÷ 29, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 10.A charity raises money from a raffle and a cake sale in the ratio 5 : 3. Altogether the charity raises £320. Work out how much money the cake sale raised.
- 11.In a fruit crate the ratio of oranges to lemons is 5 : 6. What fraction of the fruit in the crate are lemons?
- 12.Work out (−2/5) × (−10/3). Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 13.n is a whole number and 2 ≤ n < 6. Write down all the possible values of n.
- 14.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 3/10 ___ 0.3
- 15.A bag of flour is labelled 1.5 kg, correct to the nearest 0.1 kg. The true mass of the flour is m kg. Which inequality gives all the possible values of m?
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