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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.Oliver drives 95 km at an average speed of 50 km/h. Work out an estimate for the time the journey takes, by rounding the distance to the nearest 100 km.
- 2.Work out the value of ∛8.
- 3.A shop assistant says that 7.2 × 3.9 = 56.16. Work out an estimate for 7.2 × 3.9, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number, to show that the assistant’s answer cannot be correct.
- 4.A jumper is reduced by 15% in a sale to a price of £42.50. Work out the original price.
- 5.Simplify (y³)⁴, giving your answer as a single power of y.
- 6.A number, x, is truncated (not rounded) to 1 decimal place and the result is 6.2. Write down the error interval for x.
- 7.A tin of paint has a mass of 5.672 kg. Round this mass to 1 decimal place.
- 8.Work out (−6) + (−4) × 3
- 9.The diameter of an artificial silk fibre is 4 × 10⁻⁶ metres. One nanometre is 10⁻⁹ metres. Work out the diameter of the fibre in nanometres.
- 10.Write 12 as a product of its prime factors.
- 11.Write 0.325 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 12.Write the fraction 9/25 as a decimal.
- 13.A company's turnover is 5.6 × 10⁷ pounds, spread evenly across 3.5 × 10² shops. Work out the average turnover per shop, in standard form.
- 14.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?
- 15.Which of these statements about −0.7 and −0.25 is true?
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