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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 jumper is reduced by 15% in a sale to a price of £42.50. Work out the original price.
- 2.A jar of jam costs £2.35. Tom buys 3 jars. He says the total cost is more than £7. Work out the exact total cost, and state whether Tom's claim is correct.
- 3.Freya types 4² + 3² into her calculator and writes down 49. Work out the correct value of 4² + 3².
- 4.Amelia has 49 boxes of apples with 21 apples in each box. Work out an estimate for the total number of apples, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 5.At a swimming pool the ratio of adults to children is 3 : 5. Of the children, 2/5 are boys. What fraction of the people at the pool are boys?
- 6.Write 0.35 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
- 7.To estimate the cost of buying 38.7 m of rope at £21.40 per metre, both numbers are first rounded to 1 significant figure. Work out the estimate.
- 8.Work out 1 1/2 ÷ 3/4 exactly, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 9.A box holds 140 pens. 25% of the pens are red. Work out how many of the pens are red.
- 10.Is 120 divisible by 5? Give a reason for your answer.
- 11.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: 7/8, 0.8, 78%, 17/20
- 12.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.
- 13.A tap fills a 20 litre bucket in 2 minutes 30 seconds. Work out the rate of flow, in litres per minute.
- 14.Write the fraction 9/25 as a decimal.
- 15.Simplify 3² ÷ 3⁵, giving your answer as a single power of 3.
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