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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.The number 24 can be written as 2³ × 3, and the number 60 can be written as 2² × 3 × 5. Work out the lowest common multiple of 24 and 60.
- 2.Last year a company made a profit of £5,200,000. Write this amount in standard form.
- 3.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: −0.6, 0.45, −0.15, 0.5, −0.09
- 4.Work out 4368 ÷ 12.
- 5.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?
- 6.In a youth club the number of girls is 2/3 of the number of boys. What fraction of the members of the club are girls?
- 7.Simplify 3² ÷ 3⁵, giving your answer as a single power of 3.
- 8.Simplify (y³)⁴, giving your answer as a single power of y.
- 9.To estimate the cost of buying 38.7 m of rope at £21.40 per metre, both numbers are first rounded to 1 significant figure. Work out the estimate.
- 10.A country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.
- 11.A length, L cm, has the error interval 24.5 ≤ L < 25.5. Write down the degree of accuracy to which the length was measured.
- 12.A spreadsheet shows that 812 − 397 = 315. Work out an estimate for 812 − 397, by rounding each number to the nearest 100, to check whether the spreadsheet's answer is reasonable.
- 13.Write 0.00072 in standard form.
- 14.A number, n, is equal to 3.7 when rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for n.
- 15.Write 0.0038 in standard form.
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