Daily Practice · Foundation
May 1997 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in May 1997, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in May 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 19974 identical batteries cost £4.20. Work out the cost of 7 of the same batteries.
- 2nd May 1997A cuboid measures 2 cm by 9 cm by 11 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 3rd May 1997Using only the digits 2, 1, 5, 4 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 4th May 1997A pie chart shows 30 items. One sector has an angle of 96°. How many items does it represent?
- 5th May 1997Work out 2/5 x 5/7. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 6th May 1997Use v = u + at with u = 14, a = 9 and t = 4. Work out v.
- 7th May 1997A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 3 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 8th May 1997The point (-7, -7) is rotated 90° clockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 9th May 1997Here are 6 numbers: 6, 10, 14, 18, 7, 17. Work out the mean.
- 10th May 1997Of 65 students, 31 study French, 41 study German and 15 study both. How many study neither?
- 11th May 1997A length x is 33 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 12th May 1997A sequence has nth term 6n - 1. Work out the 100th term.
- 13th May 1997A 1100 g bag of pasta costs £4.40. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 14th May 1997Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 61°, 90° and 177°. Work out the fourth.
- 15th May 1997Here are seven numbers: 8, 13, 14, 25, 19, 17, 28. Work out the median and the range.
- 16th May 1997140 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 25 said yes. 35 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 17th May 1997Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(10) lie?
- 18th May 1997Solve the inequality 5x - 5 > 55.
- 19th May 1997£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £120 buy?
- 20th May 1997A trapezium has parallel sides of 8 cm and 18 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 21st May 1997A bag holds 5 red, 2 blue and 5 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 22nd May 1997In a group of 60 students, 20 are boys. 5 boys and 20 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 23rd May 1997Work out 2/5 x 1/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 24th May 1997Simplify 9a + 5b + 7a - 2b.
- 25th May 1997A recipe for 12 flapjacks uses 264 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 5 flapjacks?
- 26th May 1997The point (7, 4) is reflected in the y-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 27th May 1997A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 28th May 1997In a survey 9 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 29th May 1997A length x is 270 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 30th May 1997A line has equation y = 6x - 18. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 31st May 19978 identical cupcakes cost £12.80. Work out the cost of 7 of the same cupcakes.