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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 200 as a product of its prime factors, using index notation.
- 2.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 3/10 ___ 0.3
- 3.On one night in Manchester the temperature at 3 am was 8 °C below zero and at 9 am it was 3 °C below zero. Write down the warmer of the two readings.
- 4.Work out 2/5 + 1/4, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 5.A minibus can carry 16 passengers. A school is taking 179 pupils on a trip. By rounding 179 to the nearest 10, work out an estimate for the number of minibuses needed, given that the school cannot hire part of a minibus.
- 6.Work out an estimate for 79.3 − 24.6, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number.
- 7.Work out 100 − 4 × 5²
- 8.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.
- 9.A paint mix is made from white paint and blue paint in the ratio 5 : 3. Priya uses 1.2 litres of blue paint and the matching amount of white paint. Work out the total volume of the mix.
- 10.Work out 3 + 4 × (−2).
- 11.Write 12 as a product of its prime factors.
- 12.Work out the value of .
- 13.At a book fair the ratio of fiction books to non-fiction books is 4 : 5. Of the non-fiction books, 3/5 are about history. Work out the fraction of all the books at the fair that are history books.
- 14.A three-digit code is made using the digits 1, 2 and 3, and each digit may be used more than once. Work out how many different three-digit codes can be made.
- 15.Simplify (y³)⁴, giving your answer as a single power of y.
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