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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.After a price increase of 10%, a laptop costs £330. Work out the original price.
- 2.A number is divided by 5, then 6 is subtracted, giving the result −1. Work out the number.
- 3.A cinema has 250 seats. 12% of the seats are reserved. Work out how many of the seats are reserved.
- 4.Work out an estimate for 37 × 84, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 5.Work out (4 × 10⁻³) × (2 × 10⁵). Give your answer in standard form.
- 6.A plank of wood is 5 1/4 m long. Pieces of length 3/4 m are cut from it. Work out how many complete pieces of 3/4 m can be cut from the plank.
- 7.Write 0.35 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
- 8.A red blood cell has a diameter of about 7 × 10⁻⁶ metres. A virus has a diameter about 100 times smaller. Work out the diameter of the virus. Give your answer in standard form.
- 9.Work out (−36) ÷ (−6) × 2
- 10.Work out (4 × 10³) × (3 × 10¹). Give your answer in standard form.
- 11.Insert one pair of brackets into 2 + 3 × 5 − 1 so that the calculation is equal to 24. Which calculation is correct?
- 12.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.
- 13.Work out 5 + 3 × (9 − 6)
- 14.Round 4,685 to the nearest 100.
- 15.Write 0.36 as a fraction in its simplest form.
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