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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.A bag holds 5 different sweets. Noah takes 2 of the sweets out of the bag together, so the order in which he takes them does not matter. Work out how many different pairs of sweets he could take.
- 2.Work out (5 + 2) × 3²
- 3.Write '3.2 million' as a number in figures.
- 4.Which of these is equal to 5³?
- 5.A tap fills a 20 litre bucket in 2 minutes 30 seconds. Work out the rate of flow, in litres per minute.
- 6.Write down the value of 3⁰
- 7.In a chess club, 3/8 of the members are girls and the rest are boys. Write down the ratio of girls to boys.
- 8.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.
- 9.A number, x, is truncated (not rounded) to 1 decimal place and the result is 6.2. Write down the error interval for x.
- 10.3/5 of a 5/6 litre bottle of juice is poured out. Work out the exact volume poured out, in litres.
- 11.A space probe is 7.5 × 10⁸ km from Earth. Write this distance as an ordinary number.
- 12.Work out 250 ÷ 1000.
- 13.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.
- 14.In a science experiment, the temperature of a liquid is recorded as 18.6 °C, correct to the nearest 0.2 °C. Write down the error interval for the actual temperature, T °C.
- 15.Simplify x⁶ ÷ x²
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