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.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?
- 2.A jacket normally costs £65. In a sale it is reduced by 20%, and the shop then takes a further £5 off at the till. Work out the final price.
- 3.Write 5,000,000 in standard form.
- 4.A cyclist travels 40 km, correct to the nearest 10 km, in a time of 3 hours, correct to the nearest hour. Work out the maximum possible average speed, in km/h.
- 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√81
- 7.Without using a calculator, estimate the value of √70 × ∛65, giving your answer to 1 significant figure.
- 8.Simplify x⁷ × x⁴, giving your answer as a single power of x.
- 9.A train journey takes 45 minutes, correct to the nearest 5 minutes. Using t for the actual time of the journey in minutes, write down the error interval for t.
- 10.Write 0.875 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 11.Write 5/6 as a decimal, showing clearly which digit recurs.
- 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.A country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.
- 14.Work out 3 × (−2)² − 5
- 15.Work out 6² − 4².
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