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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.After a price increase of 10%, a laptop costs £330. Work out the original price.
- 2.A spreadsheet shows that 812 − 397 = 315. Work out an estimate for 812 − 397, by rounding each number to the nearest 100, to check whether the spreadsheet's answer is reasonable.
- 3.A school orders 187 packed lunches for a trip. Each packed lunch costs £4.85. The school has £900 to spend. By rounding each number to 1 significant figure, work out an estimate for the total cost and decide whether £900 is enough.
- 4.A number, x, is truncated (not rounded) to 1 decimal place and the result is 6.2. Write down the error interval for x.
- 5.Last year a company made a profit of £5,200,000. Write this amount in standard form.
- 6.Work out the value of 2⁻⁴
- 7.Work out the value of ∛125.
- 8.Work out an estimate for 312 × 19, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 9.Write down the reciprocal of 0.2
- 10.Work out 5 + 3 × (9 − 6)
- 11.In a music collection, the ratio of pop albums to rock albums is 5 : 3. Work out the number of rock albums as a fraction of the number of pop albums.
- 12.Work out −7 − (−3).
- 13.A plank of wood is 5 1/4 m long. Pieces of length 3/4 m are cut from it. Work out how many complete pieces of 3/4 m can be cut from the plank.
- 14.A space probe is 7.5 × 10⁸ km from Earth. Write this distance as an ordinary number.
- 15.Find the missing number: 17 × ▢ = 391
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