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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.A bag holds 50 counters. 2/5 of them are red and the rest are blue. 5 red counters are then taken out of the bag. Work out the new ratio of red counters to blue counters. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 2.Work out (2/3)² + (1/2)². Give your answer as a fraction.
- 3.Work out the total cost of 3 pens at 45p each and one notebook at £2.35. Give your answer in pounds.
- 4.In a fruit crate the ratio of oranges to lemons is 5 : 6. What fraction of the fruit in the crate are lemons?
- 5.Write 90 as a product of its prime factors.
- 6.Write down the reciprocal of 0.2
- 7.A tin of paint has a mass of 5.672 kg. Round this mass to 1 decimal place.
- 8.In standard form, 2,000 is written as 2 × 10ⁿ. Write down the value of n.
- 9.The length of a pencil is 8.4 cm, correct to 1 decimal place. Using L for the length of the pencil in centimetres, write down the error interval for L.
- 10.Which one of these statements about negative numbers is true?
- 11.Which of these numbers lies between −8 and −5 on a number line?
- 12.A plane flies 2340 km at an average speed of 780 km/h. It departs at 08:20. Work out the arrival time, using the 24-hour clock.
- 13.Write 5,000,000 in standard form.
- 14.A speed camera measures a car's speed as 34 mph, correct to the nearest mph. Work out the smallest possible actual speed of the car, in mph.
- 15.At a bus station one bus leaves every 6 minutes and another leaves every 9 minutes. The two buses leave together at the start of the day. Work out how long it is until they next leave together.
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