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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.Write 0.005 in standard form.
- 2.Work out (2/3)² + (1/2)². Give your answer as a fraction.
- 3.Work out (3 × 5)²
- 4.Work out ((−3) + 5) × (−4) − (−6) ÷ 2
- 5.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: −0.6, 0.45, −0.15, 0.5, −0.09
- 6.A café buys 18 boxes of teabags at £3.45 each, and sells all the teabags for £108 in total. Work out the café's profit.
- 7.A carpenter has a plank of wood 4.8 m long. She cuts off 3 pieces, each 0.9 m long, to make shelves. Work out the length of wood remaining.
- 8.The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km. Write this distance in standard form, in kilometres.
- 9.A number, x, is truncated (not rounded) to 1 decimal place and the result is 6.2. Write down the error interval for x.
- 10.On a number line, point A is at −1. Point B is 4 units from point A. Write down the two possible positions of point B.
- 11.Work out an estimate for 89 + 52, by rounding each number to the nearest 10.
- 12.A box holds 140 pens. 25% of the pens are red. Work out how many of the pens are red.
- 13.A bag holds 50 counters. 2/5 of them are red and the rest are blue. 5 red counters are then taken out of the bag. Work out the new ratio of red counters to blue counters. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 14.A student writes 0.08 as the fraction 8/10, reading the 8 as if it stood in the tenths column and ignoring the zero. Work out the correct fraction that 0.08 is equal to, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 15.A spreadsheet shows that 812 − 397 = 315. Work out an estimate for 812 − 397, by rounding each number to the nearest 100, to check whether the spreadsheet's answer is reasonable.
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