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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.Nadia has £84. She spends 3/7 of it on a jacket and the rest on a bag. Work out the ratio of the amount spent on the jacket to the amount spent on the bag, in its simplest form.
- 2.An allotment plot is divided into vegetables and flowers in the ratio 9 : 4. A third of the vegetable section is used for potatoes. What fraction of the whole plot is potatoes?
- 3.A rectangular plywood panel measures 2.4 m by 0.75 m. Work out the area of the panel in square metres, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 4.Write down a prime number between 30 and 40.
- 5.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −2/3 ___ −5/6
- 6.A rectangular field measures 19.6 m by 48.3 m. Work out an estimate for the area of the field, by rounding each length to 1 significant figure.
- 7.A necklace is made from red beads and gold beads in the ratio 7 : 3. What fraction of the beads are gold?
- 8.Write down the value of 3⁰
- 9.Write down the reciprocal of 0.2
- 10.3/5 of the students in a year group walk to school. 90 students walk to school. Work out the total number of students in the year group.
- 11.A bus leaves the station at 09:47 and arrives at its destination at 11:23. Work out the journey time.
- 12.The number 36 can be written as 2² × 3², and the number 84 can be written as 2² × 3 × 7. Work out the highest common factor of 36 and 84.
- 13.Petrol costs £1.48 per litre. Sam buys 35 litres and pays with three £20 notes. Work out his change.
- 14.Write 60 as a product of its prime factors, using index notation.
- 15.A tin of paint has a mass of 5.672 kg. Round this mass to 1 decimal place.
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