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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.A grain of fine sand has a mass of 0.001 grams. Write this mass in standard form.
- 2.Given that 2⁵ = 32, work out 2⁶.
- 3.In a fruit basket the ratio of bananas to oranges is 2 : 5. What fraction of the fruit are oranges?
- 4.Write down a prime number between 30 and 40.
- 5.Which of these numbers lies between −8 and −5 on a number line?
- 6.A necklace is made from red beads and gold beads in the ratio 7 : 3. What fraction of the beads are gold?
- 7.A shop buys boxes of pens for £4 each. It sells each box on to a school for £3 more than it paid, and charges an extra £2 delivery fee for the whole order. A school orders 5 boxes. Work out the total cost of the order.
- 8.By listing systematically, work out how many two-digit multiples of 5 can be made using the digits 0, 3 and 5, if each digit can be used at most once and the number cannot start with 0.
- 9.Simplify x⁵ × x³ ÷ x², giving your answer as a single power of x.
- 10.The mass of a radioactive sample, in grams, n years after it was first weighed is modelled by M = 200 × (1/2)ⁿ. Work out the mass the model gives after 3 years.
- 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.Work out √(4 × 9)
- 13.A jumper is reduced by 15% in a sale to a price of £42.50. Work out the original price.
- 14.Work out the lowest common multiple of 9 and 15.
- 15.Rice is sold in a 400 g bag for £1.12 and in a 1.5 kg bag for £3.90. Work out how much less the rice in the larger bag costs per kilogram.
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