Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.A gardener has 42 tulip bulbs and 56 daffodil bulbs. She plants them in rows, with every row containing the same number of tulip bulbs and the same number of daffodil bulbs, and no bulbs left over. Work out the greatest number of rows she can plant.

2.A concert hall has 300 seats. 20% of the seats are in the balcony. Work out how many of the seats are in the balcony.

3.Round 24,681 to the nearest 1,000.

4.Work out the total cost of 3 pens at 45p each and one notebook at £2.35. Give your answer in pounds.

5.Write these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 5, −8, 0, −3, 2

6.Work out the value of √49 + ∛27

7.A carpenter has a plank of wood 4.8 m long. She cuts off 3 pieces, each 0.9 m long, to make shelves. Work out the length of wood remaining.

8.Amelia has 49 boxes of apples with 21 apples in each box. Work out an estimate for the total number of apples, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.

9.The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km. Write this distance in standard form, in kilometres.

10.A café offers sandwiches with one filling from 5 choices and one type of bread from 4 choices. Cheese and mustard, which is one of the 5 fillings, is not available on gluten-free bread, which is one of the 4 breads. Work out how many different sandwiches are possible.

11.Two-digit numbers are formed using the digits 2, 5, 7 and 8, and each digit may be used only once in a number. Work out how many of these two-digit numbers are even.

12.A supermarket sells apples at £1.85 per kg. Anna buys 3.6 kg of apples. Estimate the cost by rounding each number to 1 significant figure before multiplying. Work out Anna's estimate.

13.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3/5, 0.55, 58%

14.Work out the highest common factor of 12 and 18.

15.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?