Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.A rectangular tile measures 45 cm by 0.6 m. Work out its area, in square centimetres.

2.Postage on a parcel is calculated as £4.60, correct to the nearest 20p. Which of these could not be the actual cost of the postage?

3.A number, n, is a multiple of both 6 and 9. Work out the smallest possible value of n that is greater than 20.

4.Oliver drives 95 km at an average speed of 50 km/h. Work out an estimate for the time the journey takes, by rounding the distance to the nearest 100 km.

5.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −2/3 ___ −5/6

6.Chloe wants to work out 3 1/4 − 1 2/3. She converts both mixed numbers to twelfths, then subtracts the whole numbers and the fraction parts separately, without checking whether she needs to exchange first. Work out the correct value of 3 1/4 − 1 2/3, giving your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.

7.Work out 10% of 30% of £200.

8.A café sells ice cream in three flavours: vanilla, mango and pistachio. Isla buys a cone with two scoops, using two different flavours, one for the bottom scoop and one for the top scoop. Work out how many different cones she could buy.

9.Work out 1 − 1/2 − 1/4 − 1/8 − 1/16. Give your answer as a fraction.

10.Write down the value of 3⁰

11.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: 7/8, 0.8, 78%, 17/20

12.Grace works out 7 × 99 by writing 99 as 100 − 1. Use her method to work out 7 × 99.

13.A box holds 140 pens. 25% of the pens are red. Work out how many of the pens are red.

14.Write 0.06 as a fraction in its simplest form.

15.Write 0.36 as a fraction in its simplest form.