Printable · GCSE Higher · ages 14-16
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.Maya buys 4 plants at £3.20 each and a bag of compost for £6.75. She pays with a £20 note. Work out her change.
- 2.A choir has sopranos, altos and tenors in the ratio 6 : 4 : 5. What fraction of the choir is not tenors?
- 3.Work out ⁴√16
- 4.Without using a calculator, estimate the value of √70 × ∛65, giving your answer to 1 significant figure.
- 5.A grain of fine sand has a mass of 0.001 grams. Write this mass in standard form.
- 6.The number 36 can be written as 2² × 3², and the number 84 can be written as 2² × 3 × 7. Work out the highest common factor of 36 and 84.
- 7.Work out 4368 ÷ 12.
- 8.The length of a pencil is 8.4 cm, correct to 1 decimal place. Using L for the length of the pencil in centimetres, write down the error interval for L.
- 9.Nadia has £84. She spends 3/7 of it on a jacket and the rest on a bag. Work out the ratio of the amount spent on the jacket to the amount spent on the bag, in its simplest form.
- 10.Work out the value of 2⁻²
- 11.Simplify (y³)⁴, giving your answer as a single power of y.
- 12.Work out −4.5 + 2.8.
- 13.Work out ((−3) + 5) × (−4) − (−6) ÷ 2
- 14.Work out 35% of 180.
- 15.Three-digit numbers are made using the digits 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9. No digit may be used twice in the same number. Work out how many of these three-digit numbers are odd.
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