Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Work out 8% of £250.

2.Priya has 24 red beads and 36 blue beads. She makes identical bracelets, using every bead and with none left over. Work out the greatest number of bracelets she can make.

3.Write down the value of 3⁰

4.In a chess club, 3/8 of the members are girls and the rest are boys. Write down the ratio of girls to boys.

5.Write 0.36 as a fraction in its simplest form.

6.A rectangular plywood panel measures 2.4 m by 0.75 m. Work out the area of the panel in square metres, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

7.Work out (5 × 10⁴) ÷ (2 × 10⁻²). Give your answer in standard form.

8.Two allotments are combined. Allotment A grows vegetables and flowers in the ratio 3 : 2, and has 20 plots in total. Allotment B grows vegetables and flowers in the ratio 1 : 4, and has 20 plots in total. Work out the fraction of all the plots, in both allotments combined, that grow vegetables.

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

10.At a swimming pool the ratio of adults to children is 3 : 5. Of the children, 2/5 are boys. What fraction of the people at the pool are boys?

11.A lift has a safe working load of 500 kg. Four people get in the lift and the lift's display records their total mass as 493 kg, correct to the nearest kg. Decide whether the four people are definitely within the safe working load.

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

13.Work out 2/5 of 45.

14.A concrete mix is made from cement and sand in the ratio 3 : 5 by mass. A builder mixes 96 kg of concrete. Work out the mass of cement in the mix.

15.A charity shop buys a coat for £24 and sells it for a profit that is 3/8 of the buying price. Work out the selling price.