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Fractions, decimals & percentages

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Fractions, decimals and percentages questions

OCR J560 Fractions, decimals and percentages 50 questions

Paper 1 June 2025 Foundation tier, Question 10 2 marks

Write the following numbers in order of size, smallest first.

Question 10, shown as an image

smallest

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Paper 2 June 2025 Foundation tier, Question 7 3 marks

(a)
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(b)

Write 0.06 as a percentage.

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(c)
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Paper 3 June 2025 Foundation tier, Question 4 6 marks

(a)

Write 1% as a decimal.

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(b)

Write 35% as a fraction. Give your answer in its simplest form.

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(c)

Work out 15% of 2 litres. Give your answer in millilitres.

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Paper 3 June 2025 Foundation tier, Question 15 4 marks

Also involves Rounding

(a)

Heidi and Ben both work with the same positive number N.

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Ben works out 0.63 × N.

Tick (✓) the correct statement.

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Give a reason why you ticked the statement.

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(b)

Heidi correctly works out the area of a circle with radius 10 cm. Heidi uses the formula A = πr2.

Heidi’s answer is 314.1592654 cm2.

Ben correctly works out the area of the same circle using the same formula. Ben’s answer is bigger than Heidi’s answer.

Show how this can happen.

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Paper 1 November 2024 Foundation tier, Question 3 3 marks

Complete this table of fractions, decimals and percentages.

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Paper 1 November 2024 Foundation tier, Question 4 2 marks

Write the following numbers in order of size, smallest first.

0.329 0.34 0.3041 0.346

smallest

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Paper 1 June 2024 Foundation tier, Question 27, also on the Higher paper 3 marks

Write the following in order of size, smallest first.

0.2 2-2 2 × 10-2

Show how you decide.

smallest

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Paper 2 June 2024 Foundation tier, Question 7 3 marks

(a)

Write 0.6 as a fraction in its simplest form.

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(b)
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Paper 3 June 2024 Foundation tier, Question 13 5 marks

Jane and Kofi both have the same number of newspapers to deliver.

By 8 am

• Jane has delivered 64% of her newspapers

• Kofi has delivered fraction of his newspapers.

(a)

Who has delivered the greater proportion of their newspapers? Show how you decide.

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(b)

Work out the smallest possible number of newspapers that Jane must deliver.

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Paper 4 June 2024 Higher tier, Question 7, also on the Foundation paper 3 marks

Write the following in order of size, smallest first. 0.2 2-2 2 × 10-2

Show how you decide.

smallest

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Paper 6 June 2024 Higher tier, Question 17 5 marks

(a)

Without using a calculator, show that fraction can be written as fraction

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(b)

Explain how fraction = fraction can be used to find fraction as a decimal and write down its value.

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Paper 2 November 2023 Foundation tier, Question 7 3 marks

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Show your working and give a reason for your answer.

........ is smaller because........

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Paper 6 November 2023 Higher tier, Question 3 4 marks

Write these numbers in order of size, starting with the smallest.

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Paper 1 June 2023 Foundation tier, Question 5 3 marks

(a)

Write 0.17 as a fraction.

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(b)

Write 0.04 as a percentage.

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(c)
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Paper 2 June 2023 Foundation tier, Question 1 2 marks

(a)

Write down the percentage of this circle that is shaded.

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(b)
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Paper 5 June 2023 Higher tier, Question 16 6 marks

(a)

Work out.

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(b)
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where fraction is a fraction in its lowest terms. Find the value of p and the value of q.

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Paper 2 November 2022 Foundation tier, Question 4 4 marks

(a)
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(c)

Sam says that fraction written as a decimal is 0.78. Is Sam correct? Show how you decide.

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Paper 2 November 2022 Foundation tier, Question 8 7 marks

Also involves Fractions

(a)

Write 65% as a fraction in its simplest form.

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(b)

25 people entered a competition. 4 of them won a prize.

Work out the percentage of people that won a prize.

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(c)

Increase 250 by 20%.

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Paper 2 November 2022 Foundation tier, Question 23, also on the Higher paper 4 marks

A student says that they have placed the following values in order starting with the smallest.

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Has the student done this correctly? Show how you decide.

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Paper 5 November 2022 Higher tier, Question 9, also on the Foundation paper 4 marks

A student says that they have placed the following values in order starting with the smallest.

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Has the student done this correctly? Show how you decide.

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Paper 1 June 2022 Foundation tier, Question 8 2 marks

Write the following in order of size, smallest first.

smallest

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Paper 2 June 2022 Foundation tier, Question 2 6 marks

(a)

What fraction of this shape is shaded?

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(b)

What percentage of this shape is shaded?

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(c)

Write 0.2 as a fraction. Give your answer in its simplest form.

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(d)

Work out 80% of 30.

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Paper 1 November 2021 Foundation tier, Question 6 2 marks

Write the following numbers in order of size, smallest first.

0.529 0.54 0.51 0.502

smallest

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Paper 2 November 2021 Foundation tier, Question 6 3 marks

In a quiz, Darcy answered 16 of the 20 questions correctly.

(a)

What fraction of the questions did Darcy answer correctly? Give your fraction in its lowest terms.

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(b)

Write the fraction as a decimal.

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Paper 5 November 2021 Higher tier, Question 13 5 marks

(a)
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(b)

Write fraction as a fraction in its simplest form.

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Paper 1 November 2020 Foundation tier, Question 4 2 marks

(a)

Write 2% as a decimal.

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(b)
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Paper 2 November 2020 Foundation tier, Question 4 4 marks

(a)

Write 0.16 as a fraction in its simplest form.

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(b)
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Paper 3 November 2020 Foundation tier, Question 6 6 marks

(a)

Work out 70% of 50.

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(b)

Beth multiplies a number by 3 and divides the answer by 10.

By what fraction has the number been reduced?

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(c)

Find a fraction which is bigger than fraction and smaller than fraction

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Paper 6 November 2020 Higher tier, Question 18 3 marks

Write fraction as a fraction in its simplest form. You must show full working in support of your answer.

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Paper 3 November 2019 Foundation tier, Question 1 6 marks

(a)
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(a)(i)

A number that does not divide exactly by 2........

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(a)(ii)

A number that has no factors except itself and 1........

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(b)(i)

Write down all the multiples of 4 between 21 and 29.

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(b)(ii)

Write down a common multiple of 4 and 6.

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(c)

Insert brackets to make this calculation correct.

4 - 1 × 2 = 6

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(d)

Write 7% as a fraction.

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Paper 5 November 2019 Higher tier, Question 13 5 marks

(a)(i)
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(b)

Simplify fully by rationalising the denominator.

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Paper 1 June 2019 Foundation tier, Question 3 3 marks

Complete this table of fractions, decimals and percentages.

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Paper 5 June 2019 Higher tier, Question 10 6 marks

(a)
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(b)

Elsa divides a two-digit number by another two-digit number. She gets the answer fraction.

She says that there is only one possible pair of numbers that will give this answer. Is she correct? Show how you decide.

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Paper 2 November 2018 Foundation tier, Question 6 4 marks

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Show your working and give a reason for your answer.

........ is bigger because........

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Paper 3 November 2018 Foundation tier, Question 3 3 marks

(a)
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(b)

Write 42% as a fraction. Give your answer in its simplest form.

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Paper 6 November 2018 Higher tier, Question 14 5 marks

(a)

Without using a calculator, show that fraction can be written as fraction

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(b)

Explain how fraction = fraction can be used to find fraction as a decimal and write down its value.

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Paper 2 June 2018 Foundation tier, Question 2 4 marks

(a)

Write these fractions as decimals.

(a)(i)
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(b)

A plank of wood 2.4 m long is cut into 6 pieces of equal length.

How long is each piece?

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Paper 3 June 2018 Foundation tier, Question 2 6 marks

(a)

Write down.

(a)(i)

3091 rounded to the nearest hundred

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(a)(ii)

3% as a decimal

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(a)(iii)

the cube root of 27

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(b)

Complete the statement below using a number from this list.

- 2 0 - 6 6

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(c)

Write the following numbers in order of size, smallest first.

0.4 0.5 0.06 0.444 0.46

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Paper 5 June 2018 Higher tier, Question 13 4 marks

(a)
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(b)

Convert fraction to a fraction.

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Paper 1 November 2017 Foundation tier, Question 5 2 marks

Write the following in order of size, smallest first.

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Paper 2 November 2017 Foundation tier, Question 5 2 marks

Write 0.26 as a fraction. Give your answer in its simplest form.

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Paper 3 November 2017 Foundation tier, Question 9 5 marks

(a)

Elsie changes to a decimal.

This is her working.

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Where a line of working is wrong, write the correct working beside it.

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(b)

Ali has 1 litre of squash. He always mixes 0.05 litres of squash with 200 ml of water to make a glass of drink.

Find the total volume of the drink that Ali can make. Give your answer in litres.

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Paper 5 November 2017 Higher tier, Question 12 5 marks

(a)
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(b)

fraction to a fraction. Give your answer in its lowest terms.

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Paper 2 June 2017 Foundation tier, Question 2 7 marks

(a)

Work out.

(a)(i)
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Paper 3 June 2017 Foundation tier, Question 1 6 marks

(a)

Complete this table of fractions, decimals and percentages.

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(b)

Write 45% as a fraction in its simplest form.

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(c)

Alan and Brian share a sum of money in the ratio 1: 4.

What fraction of the money does Alan receive?

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Paper 5 June 2017 Higher tier, Question 13 4 marks

(a)
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(b)

Sally divided a two-digit number by another two-digit number. Her answer was 3.18181818........

Find two numbers that Sally could have used.

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