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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 shop buys boxes of pens for £4 each. It sells each box on to a school for £3 more than it paid, and charges an extra £2 delivery fee for the whole order. A school orders 5 boxes. Work out the total cost of the order.
- 2.A speed camera measures a car's speed as 34 mph, correct to the nearest mph. Work out the smallest possible actual speed of the car, in mph.
- 3.Work out the value of .
- 4.Work out the lowest common multiple of 4 and 6.
- 5.Work out √25 + 4² − 12 ÷ 3
- 6.At a book fair the ratio of fiction books to non-fiction books is 4 : 5. Of the non-fiction books, 3/5 are about history. Work out the fraction of all the books at the fair that are history books.
- 7.Petrol costs £1.48 per litre. Sam buys 35 litres and pays with three £20 notes. Work out his change.
- 8.Which of these units would be most appropriate to use when stating the mass of a small car?
- 9.A box holds 140 pens. 25% of the pens are red. Work out how many of the pens are red.
- 10.Write 0.25 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 11.A number, n, is equal to 3.7 when rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for n.
- 12.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: 7/8, 0.8, 78%, 17/20
- 13.Given that 2⁵ = 32, work out 2⁶.
- 14.A cyclist rides at a steady speed of 8 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.
- 15.A spreadsheet shows that 812 − 397 = 315. Work out an estimate for 812 − 397, by rounding each number to the nearest 100, to check whether the spreadsheet's answer is reasonable.
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