Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.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.

2.Work out the total cost of 3 pens at 45p each and one notebook at £2.35. Give your answer in pounds.

3.A circle has a diameter of 10 cm. Work out the exact circumference of the circle, in terms of π.

4.A cinema has 250 seats. 12% of the seats are reserved. Work out how many of the seats are reserved.

5.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?

6.Work out 5⁰ + 5¹ + 5²

7.A sponsored walk is 36 km long. Aisha has completed 8/12 of the walk. Work out how far she has walked.

8.Work out the value of √(16 + 9)

9.Find the missing number: 17 × ▢ = 391

10.A café offers sandwiches with one filling from 5 choices and one type of bread from 4 choices. Cheese and mustard, which is one of the 5 fillings, is not available on gluten-free bread, which is one of the 4 breads. Work out how many different sandwiches are possible.

11.A machine fills bags of sugar and shows the mass of each bag to the nearest 10 g. A checker rejects any bag whose actual mass is less than 996 g. One bag shows a mass of 1,000 g on the machine. Decide whether this bag could be rejected, and give a reason for your answer.

12.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.

13.A student always writes the digits after the decimal point over a denominator of 100, whatever the number of decimal places. Using this wrong rule, they convert 0.9 to a fraction. Work out the correct fraction that 0.9 is equal to, giving your answer in its simplest form.

14.Work out 3 + 4 × 2²

15.Write these three numbers in order of size, starting with the smallest: 0.7, 3/4, 0.72