Number worksheet — GCSE Higher

1.Four locations each record a temperature one winter morning. Which of these temperatures is the coldest?

3.A sponsored walk is 36 km long. Aisha has completed 8/12 of the walk. Work out how far she has walked.

4.Write 0.325 as a fraction in its simplest form.

5.3/5 of a 5/6 litre bottle of juice is poured out. Work out the exact volume poured out, in litres.

6.A pizza is cut into 12 equal slices. Ben eats 5 slices and Mia eats 3 slices. What fraction of the pizza is left, giving your answer in its simplest form?

7.A box stands on a table. The box exerts a force of 240 N on the table, and the base of the box has an area of 0.8 m². Work out the pressure the box exerts on the table, in N/m².

8.√700 lies between which two consecutive integers?

9.A cyclist rides at a steady speed of 8 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.

10.Tickets for a fairground ride are sold in packs of 6. Tokens for the dodgems are sold in packs of 10. Yusuf wants to buy the smallest number of packs of each so that he ends up with the same number of ride tickets as dodgem tokens. Work out how many ride tickets that is.

11.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 7/20, 0.3, 32%

12.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −2/3 ___ −5/6

13.The mass of a radioactive sample, in grams, n years after it was first weighed is modelled by M = 200 × (1/2)ⁿ. Work out the mass the model gives after 3 years.

14.Simplify √45.

15.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.