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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.At midday the temperature in the Lake District was 3 °C. By midnight it had fallen to −6 °C. Work out the fall in temperature.
- 2.A market trader buys 8 melons at £1.35 each. He sells all of them for a total of £15.60. Work out his profit.
- 3.A rectangular tile measures 45 cm by 0.6 m. Work out its area, in square centimetres.
- 4.Round 0.006852 to 2 significant figures.
- 5.In standard form, 2,000 is written as 2 × 10ⁿ. Write down the value of n.
- 6.Light travels at 3 × 10⁸ metres per second. Work out how far light travels in 2 × 10⁻⁶ seconds. Give your answer in standard form.
- 7.A recipe uses 160 g of flour. Sam wants to increase the amount by 1/4. Work out the new amount of flour.
- 8.A grain of fine sand has a mass of 0.001 grams. Write this mass in standard form.
- 9.Write down the value of 7⁰
- 10.Work out ⁴√16
- 11.Work out 2/5 + 1/4, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 12.The number of visitors to a museum on Saturday is given as 1,800, correct to the nearest 100. Which of these could not be the actual number of visitors?
- 13.Josh buys 7 pencils at 85p each. He pays with a £10 note. Work out his change.
- 14.A flight departs at 21:35 and lands at 06:10 the following morning. Work out the total flight time.
- 15.In a music collection, the ratio of pop albums to rock albums is 5 : 3. Work out the number of rock albums as a fraction of the number of pop albums.
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