Daily Practice · Foundation
August 1997 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in August 1997, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in August 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1997Here are 7 numbers: 16, 21, 14, 15, 17, 18, 11. Work out the mean.
- 2nd August 1997In a survey 3 households own 1 car, 7 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 3rd August 1997Work out 4/5 divided by 1/2. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 4th August 1997A sequence has nth term 9n + 12. Work out the 10th term.
- 5th August 1997A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 9 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 6th August 1997The bearing of B from A is 251°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 7th August 1997Here are seven numbers: 13, 4, 19, 7, 2, 11, 17. Work out the median and the range.
- 8th August 1997A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 8, 8, 9 and 10. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 9th August 1997A length x is 400 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 10th August 1997Solve the inequality 8x + 3 >= 19.
- 11th August 1997A 500 g bag of rice costs £5.50. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 12th August 1997A cuboid measures 3 cm by 2 cm by 5 cm. Work out its volume.
- 13th August 1997A bag holds 7 red, 4 blue and 7 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is green.
- 14th August 1997A scatter graph plots how far a lorry has driven and the fuel left in its tank. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 15th August 1997Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(61) lie?
- 16th August 1997Simplify 3a + 4b + 2a - 3b.
- 17th August 1997£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £520 buy?
- 18th August 1997Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 44°. Work out the other.
- 19th August 1997A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 20th August 1997A pie chart shows 72 people. 5 of them chose French. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 21st August 1997Work out 3/7 x 3/5. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 22nd August 1997A line has equation y = 2x - 2. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 23rd August 1997A recipe for 8 scones uses 168 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 9 scones?
- 24th August 1997Two of the angles in a triangle are 86° and 28°. Work out the third angle.
- 25th August 1997Tomasz has 4 scores with a mean of 18. Scores 23, 12, 24 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 26th August 1997100 students were asked how they travel. 80 walked, and of those 40 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 27th August 1997A length x is 750 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 28th August 1997The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 48)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 29th August 19975 identical cupcakes cost £9.50. Work out the cost of 9 of the same cupcakes.
- 30th August 1997A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 31st August 1997The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/5. Work out the probability that it does not rain.