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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.In a choir, 2/9 of the members are boys and the rest are girls. Write down the ratio of girls to boys, in its simplest form.
- 2.Work out an estimate for 8,900 ÷ 29, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 3.Work out √144 − 2 × 3 + √25
- 4.Simplify 2³ × 2⁴, giving your answer as a single power of 2.
- 5.A country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.
- 6.Write the fraction 9/25 as a decimal.
- 7.Amelia has 49 boxes of apples with 21 apples in each box. Work out an estimate for the total number of apples, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 8.Which one of these statements is true?
- 9.A charity raffle sells 240 tickets at £1.85 each. 40% of the money raised is given to a local hospital. Work out how much money the hospital receives.
- 10.The number 36 can be written as 2² × 3², and the number 84 can be written as 2² × 3 × 7. Work out the highest common factor of 36 and 84.
- 11.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 0.45 ___ 0.5
- 12.Write the mixed number 2 1/4 as an improper fraction.
- 13.Work out the value of √49 + ∛27
- 14.The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km. Write this distance in standard form, in kilometres.
- 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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