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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.Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest: 7/8, 0.8, 78%, 17/20
- 2.At a swimming pool the ratio of adults to children is 3 : 5. Of the children, 2/5 are boys. What fraction of the people at the pool are boys?
- 3.Simplify (5² × 2³)³ ÷ (5³ × 2²)²
- 4.Work out 100 − 4 × 5²
- 5.Two-digit numbers are formed using the digits 2, 5, 7 and 8, and each digit may be used only once in a number. Work out how many of these two-digit numbers are even.
- 6.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −2/3 ___ −5/6
- 7.Given that 4³ = 64 and 5³ = 125, estimate ∛100 to 1 decimal place.
- 8.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.
- 9.A semicircle has a diameter of 8 cm. Work out the exact area of the semicircle, in terms of π.
- 10.Write 0.35 as a fraction in its lowest terms.
- 11.Rice is sold in a 400 g bag for £1.12 and in a 1.5 kg bag for £3.90. Work out how much less the rice in the larger bag costs per kilogram.
- 12.A recipe for one cake needs 2/3 of a cup of sugar. Priya has 3 1/2 cups of sugar. Work out how many complete cakes she can make.
- 13.c = 50, correct to the nearest 10. d = 18, correct to the nearest whole number. Work out the upper bound of c − d.
- 14.Write 0.06 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 15.Work out 1 1/2 ÷ 3/4 exactly, giving your answer in its simplest form.
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