Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.

2.n is a whole number and 2 ≤ n < 6. Write down all the possible values of n.

3.Two-digit numbers are formed using the digits 2, 5, 7 and 8, and each digit may be used only once in a number. Work out how many of these two-digit numbers are even.

4.The number of visitors to a museum on Saturday is given as 1,800, correct to the nearest 100. Which of these could not be the actual number of visitors?

5.A student always writes the digits after the decimal point over a denominator of 100, whatever the number of decimal places. Using this wrong rule, they convert 0.9 to a fraction. Work out the correct fraction that 0.9 is equal to, giving your answer in its simplest form.

6.The mass of a parcel is 3 kg, correct to the nearest kilogram. Which of these masses is not possible for the parcel?

7.A cheetah runs at a steady speed of 25 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.

8.At midday the temperature in the Lake District was 3 °C. By midnight it had fallen to −6 °C. Work out the fall in temperature.

9.A quantity surveyor calculates a length as 24.6851 m. Round this length to 2 decimal places.

10.A measuring jug shows a volume of 340 ml, correct to the nearest 20 ml. Work out the smallest possible volume in the jug.

11.A gardener has 42 tulip bulbs and 56 daffodil bulbs. She plants them in rows, with every row containing the same number of tulip bulbs and the same number of daffodil bulbs, and no bulbs left over. Work out the greatest number of rows she can plant.

12.Which one of these statements is true?

13.Work out (−2/5) × (−10/3). Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

14.Josh buys 7 pencils at 85p each. He pays with a £10 note. Work out his change.

15.A market trader buys 8 melons at £1.35 each. He sells all of them for a total of £15.60. Work out his profit.