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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.Work out an estimate for 2.9² + 3.1², by rounding each number to the nearest whole number.
- 2.Work out √25 + 4² − 12 ÷ 3
- 3.n is a whole number and 2 ≤ n < 6. Write down all the possible values of n.
- 4.Work out 15% of £40, using 10% and 5%.
- 5.A shape is made by joining a rectangle measuring 10 cm by 6 cm to a semicircle of diameter 6 cm along one of the rectangle's shorter sides. Work out the exact area of the shape, in terms of π.
- 6.Using only 20p coins and 10p coins, and at least one of each, work out how many different ways there are to make exactly 60p. List the possibilities systematically.
- 7.A sponsored walk is 36 km long. Aisha has completed 8/12 of the walk. Work out how far she has walked.
- 8.A shop assistant says that 7.2 × 3.9 = 56.16. Work out an estimate for 7.2 × 3.9, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number, to show that the assistant’s answer cannot be correct.
- 9.A garden has flowers, herbs and vegetables in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. What fraction of the garden is not vegetables?
- 10.Work out 100 − 4 × 5²
- 11.Freya types 4² + 3² into her calculator and writes down 49. Work out the correct value of 4² + 3².
- 12.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.
- 13.Work out the lowest common multiple of 4 and 6.
- 14.A window display has red baubles, gold baubles and green baubles in the ratio 4 : 5 : 6. What fraction of the baubles are not green?
- 15.Work out (5 + 2) × 3²
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