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Number worksheet — GCSE Higher
Fifteen questions across the number statements at Higher tier. Choose the non-calculator filter to rehearse Paper 1, which counts for a third of the marks.
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Number worksheet — GCSE Higher
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- 1.3/5 of the students in a year group walk to school. 90 students walk to school. Work out the total number of students in the year group.
- 2.Round 0.006482 to 2 significant figures.
- 3.A cyclist rides at a steady speed of 8 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.
- 4.The thickness of a sheet of card is 0.02384 cm. Write this thickness correct to 2 significant figures.
- 5.Sam rounds 0.070268 to 3 significant figures and writes 0.0703. Which of these statements is correct?
- 6.Given that 2⁵ = 32, work out 2⁶.
- 7.Maya buys 4 plants at £3.20 each and a bag of compost for £6.75. She pays with a £20 note. Work out her change.
- 8.A crowd of 8,400 people is recorded correct to the nearest 100. Work out the smallest possible number of people in the crowd.
- 9.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 7/20, 0.3, 32%
- 10.Work out (3 × 10²) × (2 × 10⁵). Give your answer in standard form.
- 11.A charity trek covers 830 miles over roughly 19 days. By rounding each number to 1 significant figure, work out an estimate for the number of miles walked per day.
- 12.A red blood cell has a diameter of about 7 × 10⁻⁶ metres. A virus has a diameter about 100 times smaller. Work out the diameter of the virus. Give your answer in standard form.
- 13.A recipe uses 0.625 kg of flour. Write this mass as a fraction of a kilogram, in its simplest form.
- 14.A speed camera measures a car's speed as 34 mph, correct to the nearest mph. Work out the smallest possible actual speed of the car, in mph.
- 15.Work out (8 × 10⁻⁵) × (5 × 10³). Give your answer in standard form.
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