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.A recipe uses 160 g of flour. Sam wants to increase the amount by 1/4. Work out the new amount of flour.
- 2.To estimate the cost of buying 38.7 m of rope at £21.40 per metre, both numbers are first rounded to 1 significant figure. Work out the estimate.
- 3.Work out 3.7 × 24.
- 4.Work out ∛64.
- 5.Work out 100 − 4 × 5²
- 6.A three-digit code is made using the digits 1, 2 and 3, and each digit may be used more than once. Work out how many different three-digit codes can be made.
- 7.By listing systematically, work out how many two-digit multiples of 5 can be made using the digits 0, 3 and 5, if each digit can be used at most once and the number cannot start with 0.
- 8.A space probe is 7.5 × 10⁸ km from Earth. Write this distance as an ordinary number.
- 9.Write these three numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3/5, 0.55, 58%
- 10.A crowd of 8,400 people is recorded correct to the nearest 100. Work out the smallest possible number of people in the crowd.
- 11.A market trader buys 8 melons at £1.35 each. He sells all of them for a total of £15.60. Work out his profit.
- 12.Work out the value of √(16 + 9)
- 13.Work out an estimate for 79.3 − 24.6, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number.
- 14.Two lighthouses flash at the start of the same minute. The first lighthouse flashes every 8 minutes and the second flashes every 12 minutes. Work out how many minutes it will be until they next flash together.
- 15.Given that 4³ = 64 and 5³ = 125, estimate ∛100 to 1 decimal place.
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