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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.In a school, 3/5 of the students study French. Of these students, 2/3 also study Spanish. What fraction of all the students study both French and Spanish?
- 2.A space probe is 7.5 × 10⁸ km from Earth. Write this distance as an ordinary number.
- 3.A vending machine sells 4 types of crisps, 5 types of chocolate bar and 2 types of drink. Work out how many different combinations of one crisp packet, one chocolate bar and one drink can be bought.
- 4.A car travels 180 km using 6 litres of fuel. Work out the car's fuel consumption in kilometres per litre, then work out how many kilometres it can travel on a full tank of 12 litres at this rate.
- 5.Work out 36 ÷ (2 × 3)
- 6.Sara has a red T-shirt, a blue T-shirt and a green T-shirt. She has black shorts and grey shorts. By listing the combinations systematically, work out how many different outfits of one T-shirt and one pair of shorts she can make.
- 7.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.
- 8.A newspaper reports that 48,000 people attended a festival. The figure is correct to the nearest thousand. Which statement about the number of people who attended must be true?
- 9.Simplify x⁵ × x³ ÷ x², giving your answer as a single power of x.
- 10.Work out an estimate for 6.8 × 41, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 11.Last year a company made a profit of £5,200,000. Write this amount in standard form.
- 12.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 6/11 ___ 4/11
- 13.Work out 35% of 180.
- 14.The rainfall in a town during April is recorded as 62.4 mm, correct to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for the actual rainfall, r mm.
- 15.A quantity surveyor calculates a length as 24.6851 m. Round this length to 2 decimal places.
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