WJEC GCSE Mathematics (3300)
GCSE Maths
Topic worksheet
Number
Original exam-style worksheet — not an official exam paper
Time guide: 50–60 minutes · Questions: 32 · Total marks: 79
Written in WJEC Higher-style. Show working. Give units where needed.
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1. Write 528 as a product of prime factors. [2]
2. Find the HCF and LCM of 44 and 60. [3]
3. Work out (4.4 × 10⁵) + (5.2 × 10⁴). Give your answer in standard form. [3]
4. Work out (4.4 × 10⁴) × (5.2 × 10⁻³). Give your answer in standard form. [2]
5. Convert 0.3131... to a fraction in its simplest form. [3]
6. 6.800000000000001 cm has been rounded to 1 decimal place. Write the error interval. [2]
7. A rectangle is measured as 12.8 cm by 5.4 cm, each to 1 d.p. Work out the upper bound of the area. [3]
8. A jacket is reduced by 20% in a sale and now costs £56. Work out the original price. [3]
9. Owain invests £320 at 6% compound interest for 3 years. Work out the value of the investment. [3]
10. The same £320 is invested at 6% simple interest for 3 years. Work out the interest earned. [2]
11. A car worth £8800 depreciates by 15% a year for 2 years. Find its value after 2 years. [3]
12. Work out 2 3/4 + 1 5/6. Give your answer as a mixed number. [3]
13. Work out 3 1/5 ÷ 2/3. [3]
14. Write down the reciprocal of 0.2 [1]
16. Rationalise the denominator of 6 / √24. [3]
17. Work out 3⁷ ÷ 3⁴. [1]
19. Work out 27^(2/3). [2]
20. Estimate (39.6 × 19.8) ÷ 7.9 by rounding each number to 1 significant figure. [2]
21. Write 7/8 as a decimal and as a percentage. [2]
22. Share £260 in the ratio 2 : 3 : 5. [3]
23. Round 0.04682 to 2 significant figures. [1]
24. Work out (2.5 × 10⁷) ÷ (5 × 10³) in standard form. [2]
25. A shop buys a lamp for £28 and sells it for £36. Work out the percentage profit. [2]
26. Simplify (√16 + √2)(√16 − √2). [3]
27. Owain writes 4.7 × 10ⁿ = 0.00047.
(b) Write 470 000 in standard form. [2]
28. A number x is given as 100 to the nearest 10. Find the lower bound of 1000 / x. [3]
29. Explain the difference between a terminating decimal and a recurring decimal. Give an example of each. [3]
30. Work out 1 1/2 × 2 2/3. [3]
31. Here is a number machine: input → × 4 → − 7 → output.
(a) Find the output when the input is 5. [1]
(b) The output is 29. Find the input. [2]
32. In a WJEC calculator paper, a student writes 3.6 × 10⁴ + 2.1 × 10³ = 5.7 × 10⁷. Explain the mistake and give the correct answer in standard form. [3]