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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 country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.
- 2.A necklace is made from red beads and gold beads in the ratio 7 : 3. What fraction of the beads are gold?
- 3.Work out an estimate for 6.8 × 41, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 4.The mass of a radioactive sample, in grams, n years after it was first weighed is modelled by M = 200 × (1/2)ⁿ. Work out the mass the model gives after 3 years.
- 5.3/5 of a 5/6 litre bottle of juice is poured out. Work out the exact volume poured out, in litres.
- 6.Priya has 24 red beads and 36 blue beads. She makes identical bracelets, using every bead and with none left over. Work out the greatest number of bracelets she can make.
- 7.In a science experiment, the temperature of a liquid is recorded as 18.6 °C, correct to the nearest 0.2 °C. Write down the error interval for the actual temperature, T °C.
- 8.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 6/11 ___ 4/11
- 9.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.
- 10.Work out 3 + 4 × (−2).
- 11.Work out (2/3)² + (1/2)². Give your answer as a fraction.
- 12.In a school, 3/5 of the students study French. Of these students, 2/3 also study Spanish. What fraction of all the students study both French and Spanish?
- 13.Work out the lowest common multiple of 9 and 15.
- 14.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.
- 15.A number, x, is truncated (not rounded) to 1 decimal place and the result is 6.2. Write down the error interval for x.
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