Daily Practice · Foundation
August 1996 - Foundation 5-a-day
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Every sheet in August 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1996On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 5 people. A bar is 7 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 2nd August 1996Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(86) lie?
- 3rd August 1996Simplify 2a + 3b + 3a - 1b.
- 4th August 19966 identical batteries cost £3.30. Work out the cost of 5 of the same batteries.
- 5th August 1996An L-shape is a 13 cm by 16 cm rectangle with a 9 cm by 11 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 6th August 1996A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 7th August 1996A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 6 with the leaves 1, 3, 5, 7, 8. Work out the median of the five values.
- 8th August 1996Work out 1/6 x 2/6. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 9th August 1996A line has equation y = 4x - 4. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 10th August 1996A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 2 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 11th August 1996A cuboid measures 11 cm by 2 cm by 5 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 12th August 1996Rohan has 4 scores with a mean of 9. Scores 4, 15, 3 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 13th August 1996A pie chart shows 72 items. One sector has an angle of 45°. How many items does it represent?
- 14th August 1996A length x is 80 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 15th August 1996The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 84)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 16th August 1996A 1100 g bag of rice costs £7.15. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 17th August 1996The point (-5, -1) is rotated 90° clockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 18th August 1996The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/8. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 19th August 1996Of 67 students, 30 study French, 28 study German and 5 study both. How many study neither?
- 20th August 1996Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(52) lie?
- 21st August 1996A rectangle is x cm wide and 9 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 22nd August 1996£1 is worth 1.15 euros. How many euros does £500 buy?
- 23rd August 1996Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 52°, 93° and 130°. Work out the fourth.
- 24th August 1996Using only the digits 6, 2, 3, 8 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 25th August 1996190 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 26th August 1996Work out 1/6 x 1/2. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 27th August 1996Use v = u + at with u = 5, a = 7 and t = 4. Work out v.
- 28th August 1996A recipe for 12 muffins uses 480 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 9 muffins?
- 29th August 1996A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 11 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 30th August 1996Here are 5 numbers: 9, 11, 13, 17, 15. Work out the mean.
- 31st August 1996In a group of 50 students, 50 are boys. 10 boys and 5 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?