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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 down the symbol that makes this statement true: −9 ___ −4
- 2.A recipe states that a cake needs 200 g of flour, correct to the nearest 25 g. Work out the smallest possible mass of flour, in grams, that could actually be used.
- 3.A country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.
- 4.The density of a type of plastic is 0.9 g/cm³. Work out this density in kg/m³.
- 5.A necklace is made from red beads and gold beads in the ratio 7 : 3. What fraction of the beads are gold?
- 6.Write 0.06 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 7.Write the mixed number 2 1/4 as an improper fraction.
- 8.A lift has a safe working load of 500 kg. Four people get in the lift and the lift's display records their total mass as 493 kg, correct to the nearest kg. Decide whether the four people are definitely within the safe working load.
- 9.A charity bake sale sells 187 cakes at £2.95 each. By rounding each number to 1 significant figure, work out an estimate for the total amount raised.
- 10.A number, n, is equal to 3.7 when rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for n.
- 11.Work out the value of 5³.
- 12.A supermarket sells apples at £1.85 per kg. Anna buys 3.6 kg of apples. Estimate the cost by rounding each number to 1 significant figure before multiplying. Work out Anna's estimate.
- 13.Which one of these statements about negative numbers is true?
- 14.Work out the value of √49 + ∛27
- 15.The number 72 can be written as 2³ × 3², and the number 108 can be written as 2² × 3³. Work out the highest common factor of 72 and 108.
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