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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 netball team has 8 players. Two of them are chosen to be captains, and the two captains have equal standing. Work out how many different pairs of captains could be chosen.
- 2.A length, L cm, has the error interval 24.5 ≤ L < 25.5. Write down the degree of accuracy to which the length was measured.
- 3.Work out √144 − 2 × 3 + √25
- 4.Write 5/6 as a decimal, showing clearly which digit recurs.
- 5.Work out 3 + 4 × (−2).
- 6.Simplify √45.
- 7.A garden path is measured by Jon as 12 m, correct to the nearest metre, and by Mia as 12.6 m, correct to the nearest 0.1 m. Which statement about the two measurements is correct?
- 8.Work out an estimate for 79.3 − 24.6, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number.
- 9.Write these fractions in order, starting with the smallest: 2/3, 3/5, 5/6, 1/2
- 10.A carpenter has a plank of wood 4.8 m long. She cuts off 3 pieces, each 0.9 m long, to make shelves. Work out the length of wood remaining.
- 11.Grace works out 7 × 99 by writing 99 as 100 − 1. Use her method to work out 7 × 99.
- 12.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.
- 13.The decimal 0.111... has the digit 1 repeating for ever. Write 0.1 recurring as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 14.In a box of chocolates 5/8 are milk chocolates and the rest are dark chocolates. Work out the number of dark chocolates as a fraction of the number of milk chocolates.
- 15.A country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.
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