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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.Ten players enter a chess tournament. Every player plays every other player exactly once. Work out how many games are played in the tournament.
- 2.Work out 3 1/5 + 1 2/3. Give your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.
- 3.Write 7/12 as a decimal, showing clearly which digit is recurring.
- 4.Last year a company made a profit of £5,200,000. Write this amount in standard form.
- 5.Work out 4368 ÷ 12.
- 6.Write 0.325 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 7.Work out √144 − 2 × 3 + √25
- 8.In a class, 1/3 of the pupils are girls. There are 12 girls in the class. Work out how many pupils are in the class.
- 9.A shop assistant says that 7.2 × 3.9 = 56.16. Work out an estimate for 7.2 × 3.9, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number, to show that the assistant’s answer cannot be correct.
- 10.c = 50, correct to the nearest 10. d = 18, correct to the nearest whole number. Work out the upper bound of c − d.
- 11.Bella's electricity supplier charges 28.5p per unit (kWh). Last month she used 340 units. Work out the total cost, giving your answer in pounds.
- 12.The mass of a radioactive sample, in grams, n years after it was first weighed is modelled by M = 200 × (1/2)ⁿ. Work out the mass the model gives after 3 years.
- 13.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.
- 14.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.
- 15.Work out the value of .
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