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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.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.
- 2.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.
- 3.A gym increases its membership price by 1/5. The original price is £60. Work out the new price.
- 4.Work out (4 × 10³) × (3 × 10¹). Give your answer in standard form.
- 5.A company's turnover is 5.6 × 10⁷ pounds, spread evenly across 3.5 × 10² shops. Work out the average turnover per shop, in standard form.
- 6.The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km. Write this distance in standard form, in kilometres.
- 7.Work out (6 × 10⁷) + (3 × 10⁶). Give your answer in standard form.
- 8.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.
- 9.Work out (8 × 10⁻⁵) × (5 × 10³). Give your answer in standard form.
- 10.p = 24 and q = 6, each correct to the nearest integer. Work out the greatest degree of accuracy to which p ÷ q can be guaranteed correct.
- 11.Three-digit numbers are made using the digits 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9. No digit may be used twice in the same number. Work out how many of these three-digit numbers are odd.
- 12.A cyclist rides at a steady speed of 8 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.
- 13.A restaurant adds a service charge of 15% to a bill of £120. Work out the service charge.
- 14.Which of these numbers rounds to 0.048 when rounded to 2 significant figures?
- 15.Work out (3 × 10²) × (2 × 10⁵). Give your answer in standard form.
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