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Year 8 - Numbers - Worksheet

The document outlines a Year 8 mathematics curriculum from Westminster School, covering topics such as rounding to significant figures, operations with powers of 10, and percentage calculations. It includes various exercises for students to practice these concepts, such as rounding numbers, performing calculations with decimals, and determining percentage changes. The exercises also involve real-world applications, like calculating the price after discounts and determining the capacity of tanks.

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Year 8 - Numbers - Worksheet

The document outlines a Year 8 mathematics curriculum from Westminster School, covering topics such as rounding to significant figures, operations with powers of 10, and percentage calculations. It includes various exercises for students to practice these concepts, such as rounding numbers, performing calculations with decimals, and determining percentage changes. The exercises also involve real-world applications, like calculating the price after discounts and determining the capacity of tanks.

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The Westminster School

Department of Mathematics
Topics: Numbers Year 8

(Rounding to significant figures, Multiplying and Dividing by powers of 10, Multiplying and Dividing by 0.1 and
0.01, Multiplying and Dividing Decimals, Percentage increase and decrease, Percentage of change)

1) John has worked out the answer to a calculation shown below.

His teacher has told him to write all his answers to four significant figures. Round his answer to
four significant figures.

2) Round your answer to 15.72 x 103 to three significant figures. Give your answer as an ordinary
number.

3) Work out the following.

a) 0.025 ÷ 0.1 = ……………………… c) 62.8 x 0.01 = ………………………

b) 15 ÷ 0.001 = ……………………… d) 9.586 x 0.1 = ………………………

4) State whether each answer is more than 20 or less than 20.

Write “more than” or “less than” for each.

(a) 20 x 0.8 = .........................

(b) 20 ÷ 0.8 = .........................

(c) 0.2 x 200 = .........................

5) An aquarium has 5 identical tanks. Altogether, the tanks can hold 527.75 litres of water. How
much water can each tank hold?
6) Choose the answer to 120 x 0.5

600 6000 0.6 60

7) Shown below is a rectangle. Calculate the missing length if its area is 23.8 cm2. Include units.

8) You are given that 246 × 12 = 2952. Use this information to find the answers to

a) 2460 × 120 = ......................... b) 246 x 24 = .........................

c) 24.6 x 0.12 = ......................... d) 2952 ÷ 24.6 = .........................

9) The price of a laptop is £150. In a sale the price is decreased by 20%. Work out the price of
the TV in the sale

10) A carton of orange juice contains 540ml. A special offer carton contains an extra 35%. How
many millilitres of orange juice are in the special offer carton?

11) Daisy bought a car for £20,000. She sold the car for £15,000. Work out the percentage loss.

12) An empty bucket weighs 800g. The weight of the bucket increases to 2 kg when filled with
water. Calculate the percentage increase in the weight of the bucket.

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