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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 · 15 questions

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1.Work out how many factors 100 has.
(a)8
(b)4
(c)9
(d)10
2.A pair of trainers is priced at £80 online. The shop takes 25% off the price and then adds £10 for next-day delivery. Work out the total cost.
(a)£65
(b)£67.50
(c)£60
(d)£70
3.Round 592.5 to the nearest 10.
(a)600
(b)500
(c)590
(d)595
4.£60 is shared between Amir, Bo and Chen in the ratio 1:2:3. Work out the fraction of the £60 that Amir and Bo receive together.
(a)1/2
(b)1/6
(c)5/6
(d)1
5.Grace buys three items costing £9.95, £19.90 and £4.99. Work out an estimate for the total cost, by rounding each price to the nearest pound.
(a)£34.84
(b)£35
(c)£32
(d)£40
6.A choir has sopranos, altos and tenors in the ratio 6 : 4 : 5. What fraction of the choir is not tenors?
(a)2/3
(b)4/9
(c)2/5
(d)1/3
7.Work out (8 × 10⁻⁵) × (5 × 10³). Give your answer in standard form.
(a)4 × 10⁻⁸
(b)4 × 10⁻¹⁵
(c)4 × 10⁻¹
(d)40 × 10⁻²
8.A board game has 5 different character pieces and 4 different colour tokens. The dragon piece can only be used with the gold token. Work out how many different combinations of one character piece and one colour token are possible.
(a)19
(b)20
(c)16
(d)17
9.Write 0.45 as a fraction in its simplest form.
(a)9/20
(b)9/2
(c)9/100
(d)9/200
10.Work out the total cost of 3 pens at 45p each and one notebook at £2.35. Give your answer in pounds.
(a)£2.80
(b)£3.70
(c)£8.40
(d)£15.85
11.In a photo album the ratio of colour photos to black-and-white photos is 9 : 4. Work out the number of black-and-white photos as a fraction of the number of colour photos.
(a)4/9
(b)4/13
(c)9/13
(d)9/4
12.Write 0.06 as a fraction in its simplest form.
(a)3/5
(b)3/50
(c)1/6
(d)3/500
13.Last year a company made a profit of £5,200,000. Write this amount in standard form.
(a)5.2 × 10⁵
(b)5.2 × 10⁶
(c)52 × 10⁵
(d)5.2 × 10⁻⁶
14.Jack buys 3 books, each costing £4.25, and pays with a £20 note. Work out how much change he receives.
(a)£12.75
(b)£8.25
(c)£7.25
(d)£7.75
15.In a classroom the ratio of boys to girls is 3 : 4. What fraction of the class are boys?
(a)3/4
(b)3/7
(c)7/3
(d)4/7

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