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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.

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Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

Maths · GCSE Foundation · Number · 15 questions

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1.A flight departs at 21:35 and lands at 06:10 the following morning. Work out the total flight time.
(a)9 hours 35 minutes
(b)7 hours 35 minutes
(c)8 hours 35 minutes
(d)15 hours 25 minutes
2.A paint mix is made from white paint and blue paint in the ratio 5 : 3. Priya uses 1.2 litres of blue paint and the matching amount of white paint. Work out the total volume of the mix.
(a)9.6 litres
(b)2 litres
(c)3.2 litres
(d)1.92 litres
3.Leah measures the length of her classroom with a tape measure marked in centimetres. She writes the length down as 7.3157 m. Give a reason why this is not an appropriate degree of accuracy.
(a)The tape can only give the length to the nearest centimetre
(b)A length in metres must be written to 2 decimal places
(c)A length in metres must be rounded to the nearest metre
(d)The tape can only give the length to the nearest millimetre
4.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.
(a)£15
(b)£45
(c)£20
(d)£90
5.Write the fraction 9/25 as a decimal.
(a)0.9
(b)2.8
(c)0.36
(d)0.925
6.A board game has 5 different character pieces and 4 different colour tokens. The dragon piece can only be used with the gold token. Work out how many different combinations of one character piece and one colour token are possible.
(a)19
(b)20
(c)16
(d)17
7.Work out (3 × 5)²
(a)225
(b)30
(c)75
(d)34
8.Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and their scores are added together. By listing the possible totals systematically, work out how many different totals are possible.
(a)11
(b)10
(c)6
(d)36
9.A jug holds 1.8 litres of juice. Priya pours out 3/4 of a litre to fill a glass. Work out how much juice is left in the jug, in millilitres.
(a)1725 ml
(b)50 ml
(c)2550 ml
(d)1050 ml
10.Work out the value of $2^{3} + 3^{2}$ .
(a)17
(b)72
(c)12
(d)−1
11.A supermarket sells apples at £1.85 per kg. Anna buys 3.6 kg of apples. Estimate the cost by rounding each number to 1 significant figure before multiplying. Work out Anna's estimate.
(a)£6.66
(b)£8
(c)£7.60
(d)£7.40
12.Work out the value of 2⁻²
(a)4
(b)−4
(c)1/4
(d)−1/4
13.A laptop costs £720. A carrying case for it costs 1/9 of the price of the laptop. Work out the cost of the carrying case.
(a)£72
(b)£640
(c)£80
(d)£6480
14.A cake recipe needs 3/4 of a kilogram of sugar. Aisha wants to make half the recipe. Work out how much sugar she needs, giving your answer as a fraction of a kilogram in its simplest form.
(a)5/4
(b)3/4
(c)3/2
(d)3/8
15.A block of butter has a mass of 250 g, correct to the nearest 10 g. Using m for the mass of the block in grams, write down the error interval for m.
(a)240 ≤ m < 250
(b)245 ≤ m < 255
(c)245 < m ≤ 255
(d)240 ≤ m < 260

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