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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 number, y, is equal to 8.2 when rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for y.
- 2.Work out 2/3 × 3/4 exactly, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 3.At a book fair the ratio of fiction books to non-fiction books is 4 : 5. Of the non-fiction books, 3/5 are about history. Work out the fraction of all the books at the fair that are history books.
- 4.A recipe uses 160 g of flour. Sam wants to increase the amount by 1/4. Work out the new amount of flour.
- 5.Work out 20 − 8 ÷ 2 + 1
- 6.A pizza is cut into 12 equal slices. Ben eats 5 slices and Mia eats 3 slices. What fraction of the pizza is left, giving your answer in its simplest form?
- 7.Which of these decimals lies between 1/4 and 2/5?
- 8.A company's turnover is 5.6 × 10⁷ pounds, spread evenly across 3.5 × 10² shops. Work out the average turnover per shop, in standard form.
- 9.Work out an estimate for 37 × 84, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 10.A café offers 3 types of soup and 4 types of bread roll. Work out how many different combinations of one soup and one bread roll are possible.
- 11.A rectangular patio measures 90 cm by 120 cm. Ben wants to cover it exactly with identical square tiles, as large as possible, with no tiles cut. Work out the side length of the largest square tile he can use.
- 12.Josh buys 7 pencils at 85p each. He pays with a £10 note. Work out his change.
- 13.A tin of soup has a mass of 450 g. A bag of potatoes has a mass of 2.6 kg. Work out the total mass, in kilograms.
- 14.Work out an estimate for 312 × 19, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 15.Grace works out 7 × 99 by writing 99 as 100 − 1. Use her method to work out 7 × 99.
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