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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 garden has flowers, herbs and vegetables in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. What fraction of the garden is not vegetables?
- 2.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.
- 3.The error interval for the mass of a suitcase, m kg, is given as 22.5 ≤ m < 23.5. Write down the mass of the suitcase, correct to the nearest whole number.
- 4.Round 24,681 to the nearest 1,000.
- 5.Freya types 4² + 3² into her calculator and writes down 49. Work out the correct value of 4² + 3².
- 6.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.
- 7.Work out 1 1/2 ÷ 3/4 exactly, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 8.Work out 3/7 × 14/9. Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 9.Which of these numbers lies between −8 and −5 on a number line?
- 10.Work out an estimate for 37 × 84, by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 11.A spinner has 4 colours and a coin has 2 sides. Work out how many different outcomes are possible when the spinner is spun once and the coin is tossed once.
- 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.A weather app records the temperature at three points in one day: 6 °C at noon, −2 °C at midnight, and −7 °C just before dawn. Work out the difference between the highest and lowest of these three temperatures.
- 14.A number is multiplied by 4, then 8 is added, giving the result 40. Work out the number.
- 15.Write down the reciprocal of 5/8
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