Printable · GCSE Foundation · ages 14-16
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
MathsUKwww.geekhero.co.uk
- 1.In a fruit basket the ratio of bananas to oranges is 2 : 5. What fraction of the fruit are oranges?
- 2.In a box of counters the ratio of red counters to blue counters is 4 : 5. What fraction of the counters are blue?
- 3.Work out 5 + 3 × (9 − 6)
- 4.Write 0.36 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 5.In a box of chocolates 5/8 are milk chocolates and the rest are dark chocolates. Work out the number of dark chocolates as a fraction of the number of milk chocolates.
- 6.A charity shop buys a coat for £24 and sells it for a profit that is 3/8 of the buying price. Work out the selling price.
- 7.A concrete mix is made from cement and sand in the ratio 3 : 5 by mass. A builder mixes 96 kg of concrete. Work out the mass of cement in the mix.
- 8.Write 0.005 in standard form.
- 9.Work out (5 + 2) × 3²
- 10.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.
- 11.A cheetah runs at a steady speed of 25 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.
- 12.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: −0.6, 0.45, −0.15, 0.5, −0.09
- 13.In a fruit crate the ratio of oranges to lemons is 5 : 6. What fraction of the fruit in the crate are lemons?
- 14.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.
- 15.Work out 5⁰ + 5¹ + 5²
Build your own mix at the worksheet builder.