Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics Core and Extended CD-ROM

Core questions: 1 – 15
Extended questions: 16 – 18

Extended revision exercises: Number

Worksheet 1: Reviewing number concepts

1 List the first five multiples of:

(a) 9 (b) 17

2 What is the HCF of:

(a) 36 and 144 (b) 32 and 60?

3 What is the LCM of:

(a) 12 and 15 (b) 12 and 18?

4 List all the prime numbers between:

(a) 20 and 50 (b) 55 and 100

5 Write as a product of prime factors:

(a) 200 (b) 189

6 Without doing any calculation, state whether the following are true or false.
(a) 4.87 × 6 = 292.2 (b) 40.76 ÷ 1 = 40.76

(c) 0.12² < 0.1 (d) 0.25 = 0.05

(e) 31.6 × 2.894 ≠ 3.16 × 28.94 (f) 6.8 ≥ 0
(g) 18.62 ≤ 9 × 2.1

7 Calculate, giving your answers correct to two decimal places where necessary.
(a) 9 + 7.047 (b) 12.88 + 5.37
202.25
(c) 12.72 – 9.004 (d)
35.6
12.17  3.142 14.27  19.29
(e) (f)
2.155 12.6  4.03

8 Arrange these temperatures in order from coldest to hottest:

(a) 8°C, 2°C, 4°C, 0°C, –2°C (b) –4°C, 7°C, 0°C, 19°C , 29°C, –12°C

9 The temperature in Hokkaido in Japan was –8°C at 24:00 one night.

By 09:00 the temperature had risen 12 degrees. What was the temperature at 9 am?

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10 Study the diagram.

(a) Express the depth of the seabed as a directed number. CLUE: sea level is taken to be 0.
(b) Calculate the difference in height between the top of Table Mountain and the seabed.
(c) If sea levels rose 1.85 m due to global warming, how would it affect the altitude of Lion’s Head?

11 Evaluate. Give your answers correct to 2 decimal places if necessary.

(a) 5  13 (b) 3
8 1 (c) 2 62  3 81
149 15
(d) (e) (f) 3
1728  16129
11  2 48  2 7

12 Calculate. Give your answers correct to 3 decimal places if necessary.

77 29
(a) 14 × 67 + 12 × 42 (b)  (c) (427 + 842 – 374) ÷ (289 + 76)
14 11

 8    2.127   
2
5
 0.467 
2 3
 900 (f)   
2 3
(d) (e) 144
6

1.5    687  205  379   1.4  209  

3
 3 81  15 205379  6
2
(g) (h) 3
343 (i) 121

13 (a) Which two numbers have a sum of 94 and a product of 2013?

(b) Which two numbers have a difference of 19 and a product of 1170?

14 At a school swimming gala, a student stands on a 9 m high diving board and dives 15 m to touch the
bottom of the pool.
How deep is the pool?

15 A married couple have four children. Each of their children marries and has three children.
Assuming no one dies or gets divorced, how many people are now in the extended family?

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16 You are told that 3.85 × 2.007 = 7.726 95.

Without using a calculator find exact values for each of the following:
(a) 38.5 × 20.07 (b) 0.385 × 2007
(c) 7.726 95 ÷ 2.007 (d) 772.695 ÷ 38.5
(e) 772.695 ÷ 0.000 385 (f) 7.726 95 ÷ 4.014

17 Leonhardt is following a set of rules from his teacher:

1. Take any positive integer and square it.

2. Add the number you first thought of to the result.
3. Add 41.

(a) Follow this set of instructions for any three whole numbers between 2 and 10 inclusive.
What type of number is the result each time?

(b) Try this for some more starting numbers less than 35. What do you notice?
Is there a positive integer less than 50 for which this is no longer true?

18 The number p can be written as a product of the three prime numbers x, y, and z, where x, y and z are all
different.

(a) How many factors does the number p have?

Another number q can be written as the product of four different primes.

(b) How many factors does q have?

The number r can be written as a product of n different prime numbers.

(c) How many factors does r have?

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