Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Four friends share a restaurant bill of £53.90 equally. A calculator gives each share as 13.475. Work out how much each friend should pay.

2.Oliver uses his calculator to work out 25% of 80 and writes down 320. Without using a calculator, work out the correct value of 25% of 80.

3.Work out the value of √64.

4.The number of visitors to a museum on Saturday is given as 1,800, correct to the nearest 100. Which of these could not be the actual number of visitors?

5.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.

6.A number, y, is equal to 8.2 when rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for y.

7.Find the missing number: ▢ ÷ 15 = 24

8.In a box of chocolates 5/8 are milk chocolates and the rest are dark chocolates. Work out the number of dark chocolates as a fraction of the number of milk chocolates.

9.A tin of paint has a mass of 5.672 kg. Round this mass to 1 decimal place.

10.Work out the highest common factor of 15 and 25.

11.Work out 5 + 3 × (9 − 6)

12.On one night in Manchester the temperature at 3 am was 8 °C below zero and at 9 am it was 3 °C below zero. Write down the warmer of the two readings.

13.Which one of these statements is true?

14.Work out 10% of 30% of £200.

15.Work out −6 × (−3).