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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.A digital timer truncates every time to 1 decimal place. It shows a swimmer's time for one length as 12.3 seconds. Using t for the swimmer's actual time in seconds, write down the error interval for t.
- 2.Simplify 5⁻² × 5⁴, giving your answer as a single power of 5.
- 3.A square petri dish has an area of 121 mm². A scientist wants to know its side length. Work out the side length of the dish.
- 4.A bag of flour is labelled 1.5 kg, correct to the nearest 0.1 kg. The true mass of the flour is m kg. Which inequality gives all the possible values of m?
- 5.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 0.45 ___ 0.5
- 6.Given that 2⁵ = 32, work out 2⁶.
- 7.A lorry travels 105 miles in 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out its average speed in miles per hour.
- 8.A length, L cm, has the error interval 24.5 ≤ L < 25.5. Write down the degree of accuracy to which the length was measured.
- 9.A spinner has 4 colours and a coin has 2 sides. Work out how many different outcomes are possible when the spinner is spun once and the coin is tossed once.
- 10.The density of a type of plastic is 0.9 g/cm³. Work out this density in kg/m³.
- 11.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.
- 12.Work out the value of √64.
- 13.Work out the highest common factor of 20 and 32.
- 14.Work out 3π − π, giving your answer as a multiple of π.
- 15.Round 6.283 to 1 significant figure.
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