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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.Write down the reciprocal of 5/8
- 2.Work out √49
- 3.Write 260,000 in standard form.
- 4.4ˣ = 64. Work out the value of x.
- 5.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?
- 6.A roll of ribbon is 8.4 m long. Ribbon is cut into pieces that are each 0.6 m long. Work out how many complete pieces can be cut from the roll.
- 7.An allotment is divided into two plots in the ratio 2:3. The larger plot has an area of 18 m². Work out the fraction of the total area taken up by the smaller plot.
- 8.Simplify 2³ × 2⁴, giving your answer as a single power of 2.
- 9.A shop assistant says that 7.2 × 3.9 = 56.16. Work out an estimate for 7.2 × 3.9, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number, to show that the assistant’s answer cannot be correct.
- 10.Write 12 as a product of its prime factors.
- 11.Work out −(−3)⁴ + (−3)³
- 12.A restaurant adds a service charge of 15% to a bill of £120. Work out the service charge.
- 13.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.
- 14.Work out ((−3) + 5) × (−4) − (−6) ÷ 2
- 15.The density of a type of plastic is 0.9 g/cm³. Work out this density in kg/m³.
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