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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 shop buys boxes of pens for £4 each. It sells each box on to a school for £3 more than it paid, and charges an extra £2 delivery fee for the whole order. A school orders 5 boxes. Work out the total cost of the order.
- 2.A florist has 5 different flowers. Freya picks 3 of them to make a small bunch, and the order in which she picks them does not matter. Work out how many different bunches she could make.
- 3.Write these fractions in order, starting with the smallest: 2/3, 3/5, 5/6, 1/2
- 4.The length of a pencil is 8.4 cm, correct to 1 decimal place. Using L for the length of the pencil in centimetres, write down the error interval for L.
- 5.A charity raises 8 × 10⁶ pounds. This total is shared equally among 2 × 10² local projects. Work out how much each project receives, in standard form.
- 6.To estimate the cost of buying 38.7 m of rope at £21.40 per metre, both numbers are first rounded to 1 significant figure. Work out the estimate.
- 7.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.
- 8.A water tank holds 80 litres when full. It currently contains 60 litres. Work out what fraction of the tank is empty.
- 9.Given that 2⁵ = 32, work out 2⁶.
- 10.Work out 35% of 180.
- 11.Work out (5 × 10⁴) ÷ (2 × 10⁻²). Give your answer in standard form.
- 12.A quantity surveyor calculates a length as 24.6851 m. Round this length to 2 decimal places.
- 13.Ten players enter a chess tournament. Every player plays every other player exactly once. Work out how many games are played in the tournament.
- 14.Ten athletes run in a final. Gold, silver and bronze medals are awarded to the first three athletes to finish, and there are no ties. Work out how many different ways the three medals can be awarded.
- 15.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.
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