Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Work out 15% of £40, using 10% and 5%.

2.A gym increases its membership price by 1/5. The original price is £60. Work out the new price.

3.A café is planning its lunch menu. It will offer one soup from 3 choices and one sandwich from 4 choices, but the mushroom soup, one of the 3 soups, will only be served with the cheese sandwich, one of the 4 sandwiches, on a normal day. Work out how many different soup-and-sandwich combinations are available on a normal day.

4.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 3/10 ___ 0.3

5.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: 7/8, 0.8, 78%, 17/20

6.Work out the highest common factor of 20 and 32.

7.Round 4,685 to the nearest 100.

8.Simplify 5⁻² × 5⁴, giving your answer as a single power of 5.

9.Work out the value of √64.

10.A space probe is 7.5 × 10⁸ km from Earth. Write this distance as an ordinary number.

11.A jug holds 3 1/3 litres of juice. Each glass holds 2/3 of a litre. Work out how many glasses can be filled from the jug.

12.Which one of these statements about negative numbers is true?

13.Work out (−3) × 4 + 2 × (−5)

14.Work out (−2/5) × (−10/3). Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

15.Write 0.36 as a fraction in its simplest form.