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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.
Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation
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- 1.Work out an estimate for 588 ÷ 31, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 2.A café orders 340 bread rolls at 24p each and 85 cakes at £1.35 each. Work out the total cost of the order.
- 3.The population of a planet is 8 × 10⁹. Write this population as an ordinary number.
- 4.In a box of counters the ratio of red counters to blue counters is 4 : 5. What fraction of the counters are blue?
- 5.A restaurant adds a service charge of 15% to a bill of £120. Work out the service charge.
- 6.A quiz has 50 questions. Freya answers 10% of them incorrectly. Work out how many questions she answers incorrectly.
- 7.A number, n, is equal to 3.7 when rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for n.
- 8.Work out −7 − (−3).
- 9.Jack buys 3 books, each costing £4.25, and pays with a £20 note. Work out how much change he receives.
- 10.A shop assistant says that 7.2 × 3.9 = 56.16. Work out an estimate for 7.2 × 3.9, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number, to show that the assistant’s answer cannot be correct.
- 11.A car is hired from 10:00 on Monday until 16:00 on Thursday. Work out the total length of the hire, in hours.
- 12.A gym increases its membership price by 1/5. The original price is £60. Work out the new price.
- 13.Write down the value of 3⁰
- 14.The number 24 can be written as 2³ × 3, and the number 60 can be written as 2² × 3 × 5. Work out the lowest common multiple of 24 and 60.
- 15.Work out 2⁵.
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