Daily Practice · Foundation

March 1971 5-a-day

← Today's Foundation sheet

March 1971

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

Printing for a group?

The batch download puts all 5 tiers' March 1971 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.

Every sheet in March 1971

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st March 1971A 1100 g bag of pasta costs £9.90. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  2. 2nd March 1971Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 109°, 135° and 50°. Work out the fourth.
  3. 3rd March 1971A bag holds 3 red, 3 blue and 2 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is green.
  4. 4th March 1971230 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 65 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  5. 5th March 1971Work out 1/3 x 1/2. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  6. 6th March 1971Simplify 4a + 8b + 8a - 7b.
  7. 7th March 1971£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £140 buy?
  8. 8th March 1971A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 17 cm, 10 cm apart. Work out its area.
  9. 9th March 1971A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  10. 10th March 1971In a group of 60 students, 70 are boys. 30 boys and 5 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
  11. 11th March 1971A length x is 360 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
  12. 12th March 1971A line has equation y = 4x - 16. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  13. 13th March 1971A recipe for 4 pancakes uses 104 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 5 pancakes?
  14. 14th March 1971The point (5, -4) is reflected in the x-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
  15. 15th March 1971Chloe has 4 scores with a mean of 20. Scores 14, 23, 26 are known. Work out the missing score.
  16. 16th March 1971In a survey 7 households own 1 car, 7 own 2 cars and 5 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  17. 17th March 1971Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(13) lie?
  18. 18th March 1971The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 90)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  19. 19th March 19718 identical batteries cost £6.40. Work out the cost of 11 of the same batteries.
  20. 20th March 1971The bearing of B from A is 359°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  21. 21st March 1971The probability that it rains tomorrow is 5/8. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  22. 22nd March 1971A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 8, 6, 12 and 6. How many values are in the whole data set?
  23. 23rd March 1971Work out 1/4 x 2/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  24. 24th March 1971A rectangle is x cm wide and 9 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
  25. 25th March 1971A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 9 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  26. 26th March 1971A cuboid measures 15 cm by 14 cm by 9 cm. Work out its volume.
  27. 27th March 1971Using only the digits 1, 8, 5, 4 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
  28. 28th March 1971A scatter graph plots a runner's time for 100 m and the distance they can throw a ball. What type of correlation would you expect?
  29. 29th March 1971A length x is 740 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
  30. 30th March 1971Use v = u + at with u = 4, a = 7 and t = 8. Work out v.
  31. 31st March 1971A 1000 g bag of rice costs £4.50. Work out the cost per 100 g.

The same month at another level