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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.Amelia estimates 48 × 21 by working out 50 × 20 = 1,000. Work out whether her estimate is an under-estimate or an over-estimate, and by how much.
- 2.A shortbread recipe uses flour and butter in the ratio 5 : 2. Yuki changes the recipe by doubling the amount of butter but keeping the amount of flour the same. Work out the fraction of the new mixture that is butter.
- 3.Write these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: −1.4, 5/4, −6/5, 1.3, 0
- 4.In a fruit basket the ratio of bananas to oranges is 2 : 5. What fraction of the fruit are oranges?
- 5.Using only 20p coins and 10p coins, and at least one of each, work out how many different ways there are to make exactly 60p. List the possibilities systematically.
- 6.During one night on a mountain, four hikers each recorded the temperature they felt: Ben −6 °C, Priya −2 °C, Sam −9 °C, Alex 1 °C. Work out the difference between the coldest and the warmest of these four temperatures.
- 7.Work out −7 − (−3).
- 8.Work out 2 × (−3 + 7)
- 9.Work out √49
- 10.Round 4,685 to the nearest 100.
- 11.The attendance at a football match is 23,000, correct to the nearest thousand. Which of these attendances is not possible for the match?
- 12.Which of these units would be most appropriate to use when stating the mass of a small car?
- 13.A recipe states that a cake needs 200 g of flour, correct to the nearest 25 g. Work out the smallest possible mass of flour, in grams, that could actually be used.
- 14.Write 0.06 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 15.A semicircle has a diameter of 8 cm. Work out the exact area of the semicircle, in terms of π.
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