Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.A café offers 3 types of soup and 4 types of bread roll. Work out how many different combinations of one soup and one bread roll are possible.

2.Work out (5 + 2) × 3²

3.A sponsored walk is 36 km long. Aisha has completed 8/12 of the walk. Work out how far she has walked.

4.A crowd of 8,400 people is recorded correct to the nearest 100. Work out the smallest possible number of people in the crowd.

5.Work out 3 + 4 × 2²

6.A piece of ribbon is 2.4 metres long. Kim cuts 40 cm from it. Work out the length of ribbon left, in millimetres.

7.In a box of counters the ratio of red counters to blue counters is 4 : 5. What fraction of the counters are blue?

8.A jumper is reduced by 15% in a sale to a price of £42.50. Work out the original price.

9.Light travels at 2.998 × 10⁸ metres per second. A distant object in space is 3.1 × 10¹⁵ metres from Earth. Work out an estimate for the number of seconds light takes to travel from the object to Earth, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.

10.Write the fraction 9/25 as a decimal.

11.Work out −6 × (−3).

12.Simplify (y³)⁴, giving your answer as a single power of y.

13.The thickness of a sheet of card is 0.02384 cm. Write this thickness correct to 2 significant figures.

14.Work out 18 − 4 × 2

15.A rectangular patio measures 90 cm by 120 cm. Ben wants to cover it exactly with identical square tiles, as large as possible, with no tiles cut. Work out the side length of the largest square tile he can use.