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October 1996 - Foundation 5-a-day

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October 1996

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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  1. 1st October 1996Work out 2/9 x 4/5. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  2. 2nd October 1996A rectangle is x cm wide and 3 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
  3. 3rd October 19968 identical batteries cost £4.00. Work out the cost of 3 of the same batteries.
  4. 4th October 1996A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  5. 5th October 1996Using only the digits 6, 8, 1 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
  6. 6th October 1996On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 2 people. A bar is 8 squares tall. How many people does it show?
  7. 7th October 1996A length x is 60 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
  8. 8th October 1996Use v = u + at with u = 5, a = 4 and t = 7. Work out v.
  9. 9th October 1996A model of an aircraft is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 11 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  10. 10th October 1996An L-shape is a 18 cm by 14 cm rectangle with a 12 cm by 7 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
  11. 11th October 1996Here are 5 numbers: 15, 3, 3, 9, 15. Work out the mean.
  12. 12th October 1996A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 5 with the leaves 2, 3, 5, 6, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
  13. 13th October 1996Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(37) lie?
  14. 14th October 1996A sequence has nth term 4n - 7. Work out the 20th term.
  15. 15th October 1996A 400 g bag of pasta costs £4.00. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  16. 16th October 1996A cuboid measures 6 cm by 4 cm by 10 cm. Work out its total surface area.
  17. 17th October 1996Here are seven numbers: 14, 8, 17, 11, 2, 28, 13. Work out the median and the range.
  18. 18th October 1996A pie chart shows 60 items. One sector has an angle of 42°. How many items does it represent?
  19. 19th October 1996Work out 8/9 divided by 2/5. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  20. 20th October 1996Solve the inequality 5x - 2 >= 23.
  21. 21st October 1996£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £480 buy?
  22. 22nd October 1996The point (1, -2) is rotated 90° clockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
  23. 23rd October 1996A bag holds 5 red, 6 blue and 2 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is green.
  24. 24th October 1996Of 39 students, 28 study French, 22 study German and 13 study both. How many study neither?
  25. 25th October 1996A length x is 13 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
  26. 26th October 1996Simplify 4a + 9b + 9a - 1b.
  27. 27th October 1996A recipe for 10 pancakes uses 200 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 pancakes?
  28. 28th October 1996Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 113°, 90° and 61°. Work out the fourth.
  29. 29th October 1996A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  30. 30th October 1996230 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 30 said yes. 20 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  31. 31st October 1996Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(52) lie?

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