Number worksheet — GCSE Higher

1.A café sells ice cream in three flavours: vanilla, mango and pistachio. Isla buys a cone with two scoops, using two different flavours, one for the bottom scoop and one for the top scoop. Work out how many different cones she could buy.

3.A number, y, is equal to 8.2 when rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for y.

4.A market trader buys 8 melons at £1.35 each. He sells all of them for a total of £15.60. Work out his profit.

5.A café meal deal is one sandwich, one snack and one drink. There are 4 different sandwiches, 3 different snacks and 2 different drinks to choose from. Work out how many different meal deals are possible.

6.A recipe uses 0.625 kg of flour. Write this mass as a fraction of a kilogram, in its simplest form.

7.A netball team has 8 players. Two of them are chosen to be captains, and the two captains have equal standing. Work out how many different pairs of captains could be chosen.

8.A washing machine costs £320 before VAT. VAT is charged at 20%. Work out the total price including VAT.

9.A charity raffle sells 240 tickets at £1.85 each. 40% of the money raised is given to a local hospital. Work out how much money the hospital receives.

10.A lorry travels 105 miles in 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out its average speed in miles per hour.

11.Four locations each record a temperature one winter morning. Which of these temperatures is the coldest?

12.A quantity surveyor calculates a length as 24.6851 m. Round this length to 2 decimal places.

13.Work out 35% of 180.

14.A cube-shaped storage box has edges of length 7 cm. A shelf can hold a total volume of 2,000 cm³. Work out the greatest number of these boxes that will fit in that volume.

15.A cinema has 250 seats. 12% of the seats are reserved. Work out how many of the seats are reserved.