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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 red blood cell has a diameter of about 7 × 10⁻⁶ metres. A virus has a diameter about 100 times smaller. Work out the diameter of the virus. Give your answer in standard form.
- 2.Work out 3 1/5 + 1 2/3. Give your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.
- 3.Write the fraction 47/50 as a decimal.
- 4.Write 0.06 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 5.A necklace is made from red beads and gold beads in the ratio 7 : 3. What fraction of the beads are gold?
- 6.Round 3.947 to 2 decimal places.
- 7.In a photo album the ratio of colour photos to black-and-white photos is 9 : 4. Work out the number of black-and-white photos as a fraction of the number of colour photos.
- 8.The highest common factor of two numbers is 4 and their lowest common multiple is 60. One of the numbers is 20. Work out the other number.
- 9.A coach journey has a 55 minute first leg, a 20 minute break and a 40 minute second leg. The coach leaves at 13:25. Work out the arrival time, using the 24-hour clock.
- 10.Petrol costs £1.48 per litre. Sam buys 35 litres and pays with three £20 notes. Work out his change.
- 11.Four students work out 6 + 2 × 3. Which student has worked it out correctly?
- 12.£60 is shared between Amir, Bo and Chen in the ratio 1:2:3. Work out the fraction of the £60 that Amir and Bo receive together.
- 13.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −9 ___ −4
- 14.Freya uses her calculator to work out 7² and writes down 14. Work out the correct value of 7².
- 15.A van has a mass of 2,000 kg, correct to 1 significant figure. Using m for the mass of the van in kilograms, write down the error interval for m.
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