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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.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: 7/8, 0.8, 78%, 17/20
- 2.Light travels at 3 × 10⁸ metres per second. Work out how far light travels in 2 × 10⁻⁶ seconds. Give your answer in standard form.
- 3.Grace works out 7 × 99 by writing 99 as 100 − 1. Use her method to work out 7 × 99.
- 4.Write 0.35 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
- 5.3/5 of the students in a year group walk to school. 90 students walk to school. Work out the total number of students in the year group.
- 6.A tap fills a 20 litre bucket in 2 minutes 30 seconds. Work out the rate of flow, in litres per minute.
- 7.Tickets to a theme park cost £38.50 for an adult and £19.75 for a child. A family estimates the total cost for 4 adults and 3 children, by rounding each ticket price to the nearest £5. Work out their estimate for the total cost.
- 8.A box holds 140 pens. 25% of the pens are red. Work out how many of the pens are red.
- 9.A rectangular field measures 19.6 m by 48.3 m. Work out an estimate for the area of the field, by rounding each length to 1 significant figure.
- 10.Work out how many factors 100 has.
- 11.A recipe uses 0.625 kg of flour. Write this mass as a fraction of a kilogram, in its simplest form.
- 12.In a science experiment, the temperature of a liquid is recorded as 18.6 °C, correct to the nearest 0.2 °C. Write down the error interval for the actual temperature, T °C.
- 13.Work out an estimate for 8,900 ÷ 29, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 14.Work out 3π − π, giving your answer as a multiple of π.
- 15.Write these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 5, −8, 0, −3, 2
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