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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.Is 120 divisible by 5? Give a reason for your answer.
- 2.Insert one pair of brackets into 2 + 3 × 5 − 1 so that the calculation is equal to 24. Which calculation is correct?
- 3.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.
- 4.Round 592.5 to the nearest 10.
- 5.Work out an estimate for 113 + 491, by rounding each number to the nearest 100.
- 6.A rectangular tile measures 45 cm by 0.6 m. Work out its area, in square centimetres.
- 7.Work out the value of 5³.
- 8.A fruit bowl contains apples, pears and plums in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. What fraction of the fruit are not plums?
- 9.In the number 3.472, work out the value of the digit 7.
- 10.Simplify (y³)⁴, giving your answer as a single power of y.
- 11.Which of these numbers is the largest: −9, −7, −4, −2?
- 12.A train journey takes 45 minutes, correct to the nearest 5 minutes. Using t for the actual time of the journey in minutes, write down the error interval for t.
- 13.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 6/11 ___ 4/11
- 14.A laptop costs £720. A carrying case for it costs 1/9 of the price of the laptop. Work out the cost of the carrying case.
- 15.A plumber charges a call-out fee of £45 and then £28 for each hour she works. She is at a house from 09:15 until 12:45. Work out the total charge.
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