Daily Practice · Foundation
May 1998 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in May 1998, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in May 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1998A line has equation y = 5x - 25. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 2nd May 1998A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 0.5 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 3rd May 1998A cuboid measures 15 cm by 10 cm by 12 cm. Work out its volume.
- 4th May 1998Hassan has 4 scores with a mean of 19. Scores 21, 13, 17 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 5th May 1998A scatter graph plots the number of pages in a book and its price. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 6th May 1998A length x is 14 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 7th May 1998The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 84)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 8th May 1998A 400 g bag of pasta costs £1.40. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 9th May 1998Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 41°. Work out the other.
- 10th May 1998The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/5. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 11th May 1998A pie chart shows 36 people. 13 of them chose art. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 12th May 1998Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(50) lie?
- 13th May 1998A rectangle is x cm wide and 6 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 14th May 1998£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £480 buy?
- 15th May 1998Two of the angles in a triangle are 25° and 59°. Work out the third angle.
- 16th May 1998Using only the digits 9, 2, 5 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 17th May 1998170 students were asked how they travel. 70 walked, and of those 15 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 18th May 1998Work out 2/3 x 1/2. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 19th May 1998Use v = u + at with u = 9, a = 4 and t = 6. Work out v.
- 20th May 1998A recipe for 8 muffins uses 232 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 15 muffins?
- 21st May 1998A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 22nd May 1998Here are 5 numbers: 9, 3, 15, 3, 15. Work out the mean.
- 23rd May 1998On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 20 people. A bar is 5 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 24th May 1998A length x is 260 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 25th May 1998A sequence has nth term 9n + 10. Work out the 20th term.
- 26th May 19986 identical pens cost £9.30. Work out the cost of 3 of the same pens.
- 27th May 1998An L-shape is a 8 cm by 11 cm rectangle with a 2 cm by 7 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 28th May 1998Here are seven numbers: 19, 5, 17, 4, 28, 14, 8. Work out the median and the range.
- 29th May 1998A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 6 with the leaves 0, 2, 4, 7, 8. Work out the median of the five values.
- 30th May 1998Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(72) lie?
- 31st May 1998Solve the inequality 3x + 9 > 27.