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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 cinema has 21 rows of seats with 29 seats in each row. Work out an estimate for the number of people the cinema can hold, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 2.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?
- 3.Work out 2⁵.
- 4.Work out √25 + 4² − 12 ÷ 3
- 5.A tin of paint has a mass of 5.672 kg. Round this mass to 1 decimal place.
- 6.Four weather stations each recorded their lowest overnight temperature. Which of these readings is the lowest?
- 7.In a fruit crate the ratio of oranges to lemons is 5 : 6. What fraction of the fruit in the crate are lemons?
- 8.A red blood cell has a diameter of about 7 × 10⁻⁶ metres. A virus has a diameter about 100 times smaller. Work out the diameter of the virus. Give your answer in standard form.
- 9.Work out (−2)³ + (−3)² − (−4)
- 10.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.
- 11.In a choir, 2/9 of the members are boys and the rest are girls. Write down the ratio of girls to boys, in its simplest form.
- 12.Work out an estimate for 8,900 ÷ 29, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 13.A circle has a radius of 3 cm. Which of these is the exact area of the circle?
- 14.Simplify x⁷ × x⁴, giving your answer as a single power of x.
- 15.Freya types 4² + 3² into her calculator and writes down 49. Work out the correct value of 4² + 3².
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