Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 6/11 ___ 4/11

2.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 7/20, 0.3, 32%

3.Work out 1 − 1/2 − 1/4 − 1/8 − 1/16. Give your answer as a fraction.

4.A bag of flour is labelled 1.5 kg, correct to the nearest 0.1 kg. The true mass of the flour is m kg. Which inequality gives all the possible values of m?

5.A square petri dish has an area of 121 mm². A scientist wants to know its side length. Work out the side length of the dish.

6.Round 592.5 to the nearest 10.

7.Work out 5/6 × 2/9, giving your answer in its simplest form.

8.A shelf is 60 cm long, correct to the nearest 10 cm. Write down the upper bound for the length of the shelf, in centimetres.

9.Petrol costs £1.48 per litre. Sam buys 35 litres and pays with three £20 notes. Work out his change.

10.A cinema has 21 rows of seats with 29 seats in each row. Work out an estimate for the number of people the cinema can hold, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.

11.Tickets for a fairground ride are sold in packs of 6. Tokens for the dodgems are sold in packs of 10. Yusuf wants to buy the smallest number of packs of each so that he ends up with the same number of ride tickets as dodgem tokens. Work out how many ride tickets that is.

12.A sponsored walk raised £350 for charity. 20% of the money raised is spent on equipment. Work out how much is spent on equipment.

13.Zoe worked out 3/8 + 1/8 by adding the numerators and the denominators, and got 4/16. Work out the correct value of 3/8 + 1/8, giving your answer in its simplest form.

14.Sam compares 0.6 and 5/8 by comparing the digit 6 with the digit 5, and says that 0.6 is the larger number. Convert 5/8 to a decimal to find the correct larger value.

15.Work out (−2/5) × (−10/3). Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.