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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.Oliver drives 95 km at an average speed of 50 km/h. Work out an estimate for the time the journey takes, by rounding the distance to the nearest 100 km.
- 2.To estimate the cost of buying 38.7 m of rope at £21.40 per metre, both numbers are first rounded to 1 significant figure. Work out the estimate.
- 3.Round 592.5 to the nearest 10.
- 4.In a choir, 2/9 of the members are boys and the rest are girls. Write down the ratio of girls to boys, in its simplest form.
- 5.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −9 ___ −4
- 6.The number 24 can be written as 2³ × 3, and the number 60 can be written as 2² × 3 × 5. Work out the lowest common multiple of 24 and 60.
- 7.In a chess club, 3/8 of the members are girls and the rest are boys. Write down the ratio of girls to boys.
- 8.Write 0.25 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 9.Work out 2 3/4 − 1 5/6. Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 10.A florist has 60 red roses and 84 white roses. She wants to make identical bunches using all the flowers, with the greatest possible number of bunches. Work out how many red roses will be in each bunch.
- 11.In a youth club the number of girls is 2/3 of the number of boys. What fraction of the members of the club are girls?
- 12.3/5 of the students in a year group walk to school. 90 students walk to school. Work out the total number of students in the year group.
- 13.The mass of a parcel is 3 kg, correct to the nearest kilogram. Which of these masses is not possible for the parcel?
- 14.Work out an estimate for 37 × 84, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 15.Which of these numbers lies between −8 and −5 on a number line?
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