Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

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

2.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?

3.Work out (−6) + (−4) × 3

4.£60 is shared between Amir, Bo and Chen in the ratio 1:2:3. Work out the fraction of the £60 that Amir and Bo receive together.

5.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 0.45 ___ 0.5

6.After a price increase of 10%, a laptop costs £330. Work out the original price.

7.3/5 of a 5/6 litre bottle of juice is poured out. Work out the exact volume poured out, in litres.

8.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 6/11 ___ 4/11

9.A restaurant adds a service charge of 15% to a bill of £120. Work out the service charge.

10.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.

11.Work out 18 − 4 × 2

12.A café is planning its lunch menu. It will offer one soup from 3 choices and one sandwich from 4 choices, but the mushroom soup, one of the 3 soups, will only be served with the cheese sandwich, one of the 4 sandwiches, on a normal day. Work out how many different soup-and-sandwich combinations are available on a normal day.

13.A number is divided by 5, then 6 is subtracted, giving the result −1. Work out the number.

14.In standard form, 2,000 is written as 2 × 10ⁿ. Write down the value of n.

15.A jug holds 3 1/3 litres of juice. Each glass holds 2/3 of a litre. Work out how many glasses can be filled from the jug.