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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.Work out 4368 ÷ 12.
- 2.The mass of a radioactive sample, in grams, n years after it was first weighed is modelled by M = 200 × (1/2)ⁿ. Work out the mass the model gives after 3 years.
- 3.The length of a pencil is 8.4 cm, correct to 1 decimal place. Using L for the length of the pencil in centimetres, write down the error interval for L.
- 4.A florist has 5 different flowers. Freya picks 3 of them to make a small bunch, and the order in which she picks them does not matter. Work out how many different bunches she could make.
- 5.A photograph uses 4 × 10⁶ bytes of storage. A memory card holds 3.2 × 10¹⁰ bytes. Work out how many of these photographs the card can hold. Give your answer in standard form.
- 6.Work out an estimate for 89 + 52, by rounding each number to the nearest 10.
- 7.Work out an estimate for 113 + 491, by rounding each number to the nearest 100.
- 8.Sam compares 0.6 and 5/8 by comparing the digit 6 with the digit 5, and says that 0.6 is the larger number. Convert 5/8 to a decimal to find the correct larger value.
- 9.The number of pages in a book is 240, correct to the nearest 10 pages. Write down the error interval for the actual number of pages, n.
- 10.Write these three numbers in order of size, starting with the smallest: 0.7, 3/4, 0.72
- 11.Work out 3³ + 2⁴.
- 12.After a price increase of 10%, a laptop costs £330. Work out the original price.
- 13.A box holds 140 pens. 25% of the pens are red. Work out how many of the pens are red.
- 14.A necklace is made from red beads and gold beads in the ratio 7 : 3. What fraction of the beads are gold?
- 15.The population of a planet is 8 × 10⁹. Write this population as an ordinary number.
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