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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 1/2 of 1/4 of 80.
- 2.A recipe states that a cake needs 200 g of flour, correct to the nearest 25 g. Work out the smallest possible mass of flour, in grams, that could actually be used.
- 3.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −2/3 ___ −5/6
- 4.A block of butter has a mass of 250 g, correct to the nearest 10 g. Using m for the mass of the block in grams, write down the error interval for m.
- 5.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.
- 6.Work out ∛64.
- 7.A fruit bowl contains apples, pears and plums in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. What fraction of the fruit are not plums?
- 8.In a youth club the number of girls is 2/3 of the number of boys. What fraction of the members of the club are girls?
- 9.Round 3.947 to 2 decimal places.
- 10.Write these fractions in order, starting with the smallest: 2/3, 3/5, 5/6, 1/2
- 11.A charity bake sale sells 187 cakes at £2.95 each. By rounding each number to 1 significant figure, work out an estimate for the total amount raised.
- 12.Write 60 as a product of its prime factors, using index notation.
- 13.The rainfall in a town during April is recorded as 62.4 mm, correct to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for the actual rainfall, r mm.
- 14.The density of a type of plastic is 0.9 g/cm³. Work out this density in kg/m³.
- 15.Two lighthouses flash at the start of the same minute. The first lighthouse flashes every 8 minutes and the second flashes every 12 minutes. Work out how many minutes it will be until they next flash together.
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