Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Tickets for a fairground ride are sold in packs of 6. Tokens for the dodgems are sold in packs of 10. Yusuf wants to buy the smallest number of packs of each so that he ends up with the same number of ride tickets as dodgem tokens. Work out how many ride tickets that is.

2.Freya types 4² + 3² into her calculator and writes down 49. Work out the correct value of 4² + 3².

3.Postage on a parcel is calculated as £4.60, correct to the nearest 20p. Which of these could not be the actual cost of the postage?

4.In a box of counters the ratio of red counters to blue counters is 4 : 5. What fraction of the counters are blue?

5.Work out the total cost of 3 pens at 45p each and one notebook at £2.35. Give your answer in pounds.

6.A bag holds 5 different sweets. Noah takes 2 of the sweets out of the bag together, so the order in which he takes them does not matter. Work out how many different pairs of sweets he could take.

7.Work out 3 × (−2)² − 5

8.Write 260,000 in standard form.

9.Write down a prime number between 30 and 40.

10.In a box of chocolates 5/8 are milk chocolates and the rest are dark chocolates. Work out the number of dark chocolates as a fraction of the number of milk chocolates.

11.A board game has 5 different character pieces and 4 different colour tokens. The dragon piece can only be used with the gold token. Work out how many different combinations of one character piece and one colour token are possible.

12.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −9 ___ −4

13.A sponsored walk is 36 km long. Aisha has completed 8/12 of the walk. Work out how far she has walked.

14.Write 0.35 as a fraction in its lowest terms.

15.A cheetah runs at a steady speed of 25 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.