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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.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.
- 2.Two-digit numbers are made using the digits 1, 2, 3 and 4, and no digit may be used twice in the same number. Work out how many different two-digit numbers can be made.
- 3.The diameter of an artificial silk fibre is 4 × 10⁻⁶ metres. One nanometre is 10⁻⁹ metres. Work out the diameter of the fibre in nanometres.
- 4.A flight departs at 21:35 and lands at 06:10 the following morning. Work out the total flight time.
- 5.A car travels 180 km using 6 litres of fuel. Work out the car's fuel consumption in kilometres per litre, then work out how many kilometres it can travel on a full tank of 12 litres at this rate.
- 6.Work out (6 × 10⁷) + (3 × 10⁶). Give your answer in standard form.
- 7.A café buys 18 boxes of teabags at £3.45 each, and sells all the teabags for £108 in total. Work out the café's profit.
- 8.The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km. Write this distance in standard form, in kilometres.
- 9.Sam rounds 0.070268 to 3 significant figures and writes 0.0703. Which of these statements is correct?
- 10.A gym increases its membership price by 1/5. The original price is £60. Work out the new price.
- 11.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.
- 12.Which of these is written correctly in standard form?
- 13.The number of visitors to a museum on Saturday is given as 1,800, correct to the nearest 100. Which of these could not be the actual number of visitors?
- 14.Light travels at 3 × 10⁸ metres per second. Work out how far light travels in 2 × 10⁻⁶ seconds. Give your answer in standard form.
- 15.A washing machine costs £320 before VAT. VAT is charged at 20%. Work out the total price including VAT.
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