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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.Work out (−2)² − 3
- 2.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.
- 3.A quiz has 50 questions. Freya answers 10% of them incorrectly. Work out how many questions she answers incorrectly.
- 4.Work out the value of 5³.
- 5.A rectangular field measures 19.6 m by 48.3 m. Work out an estimate for the area of the field, by rounding each length to 1 significant figure.
- 6.Which one of these statements is true?
- 7.Round 3.947 to 2 decimal places.
- 8.A washing machine costs £320 before VAT. VAT is charged at 20%. Work out the total price including VAT.
- 9.Simplify x⁵ × x³ ÷ x², giving your answer as a single power of x.
- 10.Write 12 as a product of its prime factors.
- 11.In a photo album the ratio of colour photos to black-and-white photos is 9 : 4. Work out the number of black-and-white photos as a fraction of the number of colour photos.
- 12.Nadia has £84. She spends 3/7 of it on a jacket and the rest on a bag. Work out the ratio of the amount spent on the jacket to the amount spent on the bag, in its simplest form.
- 13.Which of these numbers lies between −8 and −5 on a number line?
- 14.Work out (−3) × 4 + 2 × (−5)
- 15.Round 4,685 to the nearest 100.
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