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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.
Number worksheet — GCSE Higher
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- 1.Work out (5 × 10⁴) ÷ (2 × 10⁻²). Give your answer in standard form.
- 2.Work out 3 1/5 + 1 2/3. Give your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.
- 3.On a number line, point A is at −1. Point B is 4 units from point A. Write down the two possible positions of point B.
- 4.Work out the reciprocal of (2 + 3)
- 5.Ten players enter a chess tournament. Every player plays every other player exactly once. Work out how many games are played in the tournament.
- 6.Work out √(4 × 9)
- 7.An allotment plot is divided into vegetables and flowers in the ratio 9 : 4. A third of the vegetable section is used for potatoes. What fraction of the whole plot is potatoes?
- 8.A speed camera measures a car's speed as 34 mph, correct to the nearest mph. Work out the smallest possible actual speed of the car, in mph.
- 9.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.
- 10.Work out the value of .
- 11.A school council must choose a committee of 3 pupils from 8 volunteers. The three places on the committee are all the same, so only which pupils are chosen matters. Work out how many different committees could be formed.
- 12.Write these decimals in order, starting with the smallest: 0.6, 0.55, 0.601, 0.5, 0.56
- 13.Without using a calculator, estimate the value of √70 × ∛65, giving your answer to 1 significant figure.
- 14.A plumber charges a call-out fee of £45 and then £28 for each hour she works. She is at a house from 09:15 until 12:45. Work out the total charge.
- 15.Last year a company made a profit of £5,200,000. Write this amount in standard form.
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