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WorksheetsGCSE maths quiz based on UK COVID status at 7 Jan 2020.
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 3600secs
Writing numbers.
The total number of positive COVID cases reported in the UK is 2.89 million. How do you write 2.89 as a whole number.
Do not use commas in your answer.
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Addition.
Yesterday (7 Jan) there were 1410 new cases in Northern Ireland and 1718 in Wales.
How many is this in total?
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Subtraction.
2.89 million COVID cases are confirmed in the UK.
2.5 million are in England.
How many UK cases are therefore NOT in England?
Give your answer in thousands.
Do not use commas.
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Multiplication.
The "R" number indicates the level to which the virus multiplies.
If R is 1. Then 10 people will pass the virus on to 10 people.
If R is 1.5, then 10 people will pass it on to how many people?
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Division.
There are 2.5million cases in England.
There are 50 counties in England.
What is the mean number of cases per County?
Do not use commas in your answer.
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Rounding.
There were 46841 new cases in England yesterday.
Round this number to the nearest hundred.
Do not use commas in your answer.
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Sequences.
The R number has changed in line with the following sequence:
3, 7, 11, 15
What is formula for the nth term in the sequence?
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Sequences.
The R number has changed in line with the following sequence:
3, 7, 11, 15
What is the next term in the sequence?
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Factors.
There were 14 deaths in South-East England yesterday.
What are the Factors of 14?
Use commas in your answer.
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Multiples.
There have been 2.5million positive cases in England.
Write the first 5 multiples of 2.5.
Use commas in your answer.
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Prime Factors.
There have been 144000 cases in Scotland.
What are the prime factors of 144?
Use commas in your answer.
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Units of measure. (not factually correct!)
The COVID vaccine dose is 75ml.
You get 2 doses.
How many litres is your total dose?
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Ratio. (Not factually correct)
Male cases are higher than female cases by a ratio of 3:1
There were 45000 male cases yesterday. How many female cases were there?
Do not use commas in your answer.
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Fractions
There are 90million cases worldwide.
There are 3million in the UK.
What fraction of total cases are in the UK?
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Scale.
The Pfizer vaccine comes to the UK from a factory in Belgium.
The distance is 2.54cm on a map which has a scale of 1cm:100miles.
How many miles is it to the factory?
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% of.
There were 1718 new cases in Wales yesterday out of a total of 46841 in the UK.
What % of UK cases were from Wales.
Give your answer to 1d.p
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% increase
There are 163000 cases in Wales.
If this increases by 8% in January, how many will there be?
No commas in answer
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Circles.
The Oxford vaccine comes in a vial with a diameter of 2.4cm.
What is the circumference? Give your answer to 2d.p with the unit of measurement.
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Speed, distance, time.
The lorry delivering the Pfizer vaccine covered the 254 miles in 4 hours.
What was the average speed in mph for the journey?
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Pythagoras.
The Pfizer vaccine comes from Puurs in Belgium.
A lorry travels from Puurs to Ipswich in a horizontal straight line.
120miles.
The lorry then travels from Ipswich to Norwich in a vertical straight line.
40miles.
What is the distance from Puurs to Norwich in miles in one straight line?
Give your answer to 1d.p.
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