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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 classroom the ratio of boys to girls is 3 : 4. What fraction of the class are boys?
- 2.A number, x, is truncated (not rounded) to 1 decimal place and the result is 6.2. Write down the error interval for x.
- 3.Work out 2 × (−3 + 7)
- 4.Write 12 as a product of its prime factors.
- 5.A photograph uses 4 × 10⁶ bytes of storage. A memory card holds 3.2 × 10¹⁰ bytes. Work out how many of these photographs the card can hold. Give your answer in standard form.
- 6.Write down the reciprocal of 0.2
- 7.Write 200 as a product of its prime factors, using index notation.
- 8.The rainfall in a town during April is recorded as 62.4 mm, correct to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for the actual rainfall, r mm.
- 9.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.
- 10.A rectangular patio measures 90 cm by 120 cm. Ben wants to cover it exactly with identical square tiles, as large as possible, with no tiles cut. Work out the side length of the largest square tile he can use.
- 11.At a bus station one bus leaves every 6 minutes and another leaves every 9 minutes. The two buses leave together at the start of the day. Work out how long it is until they next leave together.
- 12.Work out 3.7 × 24.
- 13.A cinema has 250 seats. 12% of the seats are reserved. Work out how many of the seats are reserved.
- 14.Work out an estimate for 397 ÷ 21, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 15.Write 5,000,000 in standard form.
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