Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.A café sells ice cream in three flavours: vanilla, mango and pistachio. Isla buys a cone with two scoops, using two different flavours, one for the bottom scoop and one for the top scoop. Work out how many different cones she could buy.

2.Given that 2⁵ = 32, work out 2⁶.

3.Write these fractions in order, starting with the smallest: 2/3, 3/5, 5/6, 1/2

4.A recipe uses 0.625 kg of flour. Write this mass as a fraction of a kilogram, in its simplest form.

5.A café orders 340 bread rolls at 24p each and 85 cakes at £1.35 each. Work out the total cost of the order.

6.Write 0.25 as a fraction in its simplest form.

7.Write down the reciprocal of 5/8

8.Work out 3 + 4 × (−2).

9.Grace buys three items costing £9.95, £19.90 and £4.99. Work out an estimate for the total cost, by rounding each price to the nearest pound.

10.Work out 4π + 2π, giving your answer as a multiple of π.

11.A board game has 5 different character pieces and 4 different colour tokens. The dragon piece can only be used with the gold token. Work out how many different combinations of one character piece and one colour token are possible.

12.Work out 1 1/2 ÷ 3/4 exactly, giving your answer in its simplest form.

13.4ˣ = 64. Work out the value of x.

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

15.On one night in Manchester the temperature at 3 am was 8 °C below zero and at 9 am it was 3 °C below zero. Write down the warmer of the two readings.