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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.Work out ∛(−27) + ∛8
- 2.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3/5, 0.55, 58%
- 3.Priya adds 3.6 and 0.45 on paper and writes down 3.65 as her answer. Work out the correct value of 3.6 + 0.45.
- 4.Ten players enter a chess tournament. Every player plays every other player exactly once. Work out how many games are played in the tournament.
- 5.The population of a planet is 8 × 10⁹. Write this population as an ordinary number.
- 6.Work out (−3) × 4 + 2 × (−5)
- 7.Four locations each record a temperature one winter morning. Which of these temperatures is the coldest?
- 8.A 3-character PIN starts with one letter chosen from A, B, C, D and E, followed by two different digits chosen from 1 to 9 (no digit may be used twice in the same PIN). Work out how many different PINs are possible.
- 9.Work out (2/3)² + (1/2)². Give your answer as a fraction.
- 10.Work out 3/4 − 5/12 exactly, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 11.A recipe uses 0.625 kg of flour. Write this mass as a fraction of a kilogram, in its simplest form.
- 12.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?
- 13.A shortbread recipe uses flour and butter in the ratio 5 : 2. Yuki changes the recipe by doubling the amount of butter but keeping the amount of flour the same. Work out the fraction of the new mixture that is butter.
- 14.A recipe uses 160 g of flour. Sam wants to increase the amount by 1/4. Work out the new amount of flour.
- 15.4ˣ = 64. Work out the value of x.
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