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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 student writes 0.08 as the fraction 8/10, reading the 8 as if it stood in the tenths column and ignoring the zero. Work out the correct fraction that 0.08 is equal to, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 2.Work out ((−3) + 5) × (−4) − (−6) ÷ 2
- 3.A number is divided by 5, then 6 is subtracted, giving the result −1. Work out the number.
- 4.A sponsored walk is 36 km long. Aisha has completed 8/12 of the walk. Work out how far she has walked.
- 5.Work out −4.5 + 2.8.
- 6.Put these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3.2 × 10⁴, 2.9 × 10⁵, 4.1 × 10³
- 7.Write 0.325 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 8.In a school, 3/5 of the students study French. Of these students, 2/3 also study Spanish. What fraction of all the students study both French and Spanish?
- 9.Work out the value of 2⁻²
- 10.Work out 3 × (−2)² − 5
- 11.A bag of flour is labelled 1.5 kg, correct to the nearest 0.1 kg. The true mass of the flour is m kg. Which inequality gives all the possible values of m?
- 12.The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km. Write this distance in standard form, in kilometres.
- 13.By listing systematically, work out how many two-digit multiples of 5 can be made using the digits 0, 3 and 5, if each digit can be used at most once and the number cannot start with 0.
- 14.A country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.
- 15.Simplify 2³ × 2⁴, giving your answer as a single power of 2.
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