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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 recipe uses 0.625 kg of flour. Write this mass as a fraction of a kilogram, in its simplest form.
- 2.Which of these decimals lies between 1/4 and 2/5?
- 3.Work out the reciprocal of (2 + 3)
- 4.A minibus can carry 16 passengers. A school is taking 179 pupils on a trip. By rounding 179 to the nearest 10, work out an estimate for the number of minibuses needed, given that the school cannot hire part of a minibus.
- 5.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?
- 6.A student works out the exact area of a circle with radius 4 cm by squaring the radius but forgetting to multiply by π. Work out the correct exact area of the circle, in terms of π.
- 7.Work out the value of .
- 8.At a bus station one bus leaves every 6 minutes and another leaves every 9 minutes. The two buses leave together at the start of the day. Work out how long it is until they next leave together.
- 9.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.
- 10.A circle has a circumference of 8π cm. Work out the exact area of the circle in terms of π.
- 11.A number is divided by 5, then 6 is subtracted, giving the result −1. Work out the number.
- 12.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.
- 13.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −2/3 ___ −5/6
- 14.Find the missing number: 17 × ▢ = 391
- 15.A cinema has 250 seats. 12% of the seats are reserved. Work out how many of the seats are reserved.
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