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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.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3/5, 0.55, 58%
- 2.A space probe is 7.5 × 10⁸ km from Earth. Write this distance as an ordinary number.
- 3.Work out ⁴√81
- 4.A quantity surveyor calculates a length as 24.6851 m. Round this length to 2 decimal places.
- 5.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.
- 6.The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,000 km. Write this distance in standard form, in kilometres.
- 7.In a youth club the number of girls is 2/3 of the number of boys. What fraction of the members of the club are girls?
- 8.Rationalise the denominator of 6/√3, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 9.Work out (−36) ÷ (−6) × 2
- 10.A charity bake sale sells 187 cakes at £2.95 each. By rounding each number to 1 significant figure, work out an estimate for the total amount raised.
- 11.A square petri dish has an area of 121 mm². A scientist wants to know its side length. Work out the side length of the dish.
- 12.Write 7/12 as a decimal, showing clearly which digit is recurring.
- 13.A charity raises money from a raffle and a cake sale in the ratio 5 : 3. Altogether the charity raises £320. Work out how much money the cake sale raised.
- 14.A recipe uses 160 g of flour. Sam wants to increase the amount by 1/4. Work out the new amount of flour.
- 15.Work out (4 × 10³) × (3 × 10¹). Give your answer in standard form.
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