Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Write 0.325 as a fraction in its simplest form.

2.Four friends share a restaurant bill of £53.90 equally. A calculator gives each share as 13.475. Work out how much each friend should pay.

3.Last year a company made a profit of £5,200,000. Write this amount in standard form.

4.Work out how many factors 100 has.

5.Rice is sold in a 400 g bag for £1.12 and in a 1.5 kg bag for £3.90. Work out how much less the rice in the larger bag costs per kilogram.

6.A flight departs at 21:35 and lands at 06:10 the following morning. Work out the total flight time.

7.The length of a pencil is 8.4 cm, correct to 1 decimal place. Using L for the length of the pencil in centimetres, write down the error interval for L.

8.Work out 1 1/2 ÷ 3/4 exactly, giving your answer in its simplest form.

9.Write the fraction 9/25 as a decimal.

10.A jug holds 1.25 litres of water. Ella pours in another 400 ml. Work out the total volume, in litres.

11.A bus leaves the station at 09:47 and arrives at its destination at 11:23. Work out the journey time.

12.A carton of orange juice holds 1.35 litres. Ruby pours the juice equally into 4 identical glasses. Work out how much juice is in each glass, giving your answer as a fraction of a litre in its simplest form.

13.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.

14.Work out an estimate for 397 ÷ 21, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.

15.For any two whole numbers, the product of the numbers is equal to the product of their highest common factor and their lowest common multiple. The highest common factor of 6 and 8 is 2, and 6 × 8 = 48. Work out the lowest common multiple of 6 and 8.