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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 the reciprocal of (2 + 3)
- 2.A digital timer truncates every time to 1 decimal place. It shows a swimmer's time for one length as 12.3 seconds. Using t for the swimmer's actual time in seconds, write down the error interval for t.
- 3.Write the fraction 9/25 as a decimal.
- 4.In a photo album the ratio of colour photos to black-and-white photos is 9 : 4. Work out the number of black-and-white photos as a fraction of the number of colour photos.
- 5.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.
- 6.A jacket normally costs £65. In a sale it is reduced by 20%, and the shop then takes a further £5 off at the till. Work out the final price.
- 7.A jar of jam costs £2.35. Tom buys 3 jars. He says the total cost is more than £7. Work out the exact total cost, and state whether Tom's claim is correct.
- 8.A circle has a diameter of 10 cm. Work out the exact circumference of the circle, in terms of π.
- 9.Grace works out 7 × 99 by writing 99 as 100 − 1. Use her method to work out 7 × 99.
- 10.A jumper is reduced by 15% in a sale to a price of £42.50. Work out the original price.
- 11.Write the mixed number 2 1/4 as an improper fraction.
- 12.Work out −7 − (−3).
- 13.Work out an estimate for 6.8 × 41, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 14.Which of these is equal to 5³?
- 15.A bag of flour is labelled 1.5 kg, correct to the nearest 0.1 kg. The true mass of the flour is m kg. Which inequality gives all the possible values of m?
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