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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.A necklace is made from red beads and gold beads in the ratio 7 : 3. What fraction of the beads are gold?
- 2.Write 0.0038 in standard form.
- 3.Simplify 5⁻² × 5⁴, giving your answer as a single power of 5.
- 4.Simplify x⁵ × x³ ÷ x², giving your answer as a single power of x.
- 5.Work out an estimate for 588 ÷ 31, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 6.A digital timer truncates every time to 1 decimal place. It shows a swimmer's time for one length as 12.3 seconds. Using t for the swimmer's actual time in seconds, write down the error interval for t.
- 7.Four students work out 6 + 2 × 3. Which student has worked it out correctly?
- 8.Work out (−3) × 4 + 2 × (−5)
- 9.In a fruit basket the ratio of bananas to oranges is 2 : 5. What fraction of the fruit are oranges?
- 10.A box holds 140 pens. 25% of the pens are red. Work out how many of the pens are red.
- 11.Amelia estimates 48 × 21 by working out 50 × 20 = 1,000. Work out whether her estimate is an under-estimate or an over-estimate, and by how much.
- 12.A minibus can carry 16 passengers. A school is taking 179 pupils on a trip. By rounding 179 to the nearest 10, work out an estimate for the number of minibuses needed, given that the school cannot hire part of a minibus.
- 13.Write down the decimal that is equal to 3/5.
- 14.A circle has a radius of 3 cm. Which of these is the exact area of the circle?
- 15.3/5 of a 5/6 litre bottle of juice is poured out. Work out the exact volume poured out, in litres.
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