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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.Priya has 24 red beads and 36 blue beads. She makes identical bracelets, using every bead and with none left over. Work out the greatest number of bracelets she can make.
- 2.Work out 20 − 8 ÷ 2 + 1
- 3.Maya buys 4 plants at £3.20 each and a bag of compost for £6.75. She pays with a £20 note. Work out her change.
- 4.The length of a pencil is 8.4 cm, correct to 1 decimal place. Using L for the length of the pencil in centimetres, write down the error interval for L.
- 5.Simplify 3² ÷ 3⁵, giving your answer as a single power of 3.
- 6.Round 3.947 to 2 decimal places.
- 7.Write 0.25 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 8.A country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.
- 9.A necklace is made from red beads and gold beads in the ratio 7 : 3. What fraction of the beads are gold?
- 10.Petrol costs £1.48 per litre. Sam buys 35 litres and pays with three £20 notes. Work out his change.
- 11.On a number line, point A is at −1. Point B is 4 units from point A. Write down the two possible positions of point B.
- 12.The number 72 can be written as 2³ × 3², and the number 108 can be written as 2² × 3³. Work out the highest common factor of 72 and 108.
- 13.Tickets to a theme park cost £38.50 for an adult and £19.75 for a child. A family estimates the total cost for 4 adults and 3 children, by rounding each ticket price to the nearest £5. Work out their estimate for the total cost.
- 14.A tin of paint has a mass of 5.672 kg. Round this mass to 1 decimal place.
- 15.To estimate the cost of buying 38.7 m of rope at £21.40 per metre, both numbers are first rounded to 1 significant figure. Work out the estimate.
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