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October 1998 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in October 1998, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in October 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1998Here are seven numbers: 2, 25, 28, 14, 4, 19, 8. Work out the median and the range.
- 2nd October 1998On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 2 people. A bar is 8 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 3rd October 1998Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(92) lie?
- 4th October 1998Solve the inequality 2x - 13 <= 7.
- 5th October 1998A 300 g bag of coffee costs £2.25. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 6th October 1998An L-shape is a 14 cm by 17 cm rectangle with a 2 cm by 2 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 7th October 1998A bag holds 5 red, 2 blue and 3 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 8th October 1998A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 6 with the leaves 2, 3, 5, 6, 8. Work out the median of the five values.
- 9th October 1998Work out 3/8 divided by 7/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 10th October 1998Simplify 2a + 3b + 2a - 2b.
- 11th October 1998£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £560 buy?
- 12th October 1998A cuboid measures 8 cm by 7 cm by 11 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 13th October 1998A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 14th October 1998A pie chart shows 40 items. One sector has an angle of 36°. How many items does it represent?
- 15th October 1998A length x is 79 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 16th October 1998A line has equation y = 4x - 8. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 17th October 1998A recipe for 10 flapjacks uses 280 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 9 flapjacks?
- 18th October 1998The point (-7, -3) is rotated 90° clockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 19th October 1998Freya has 4 scores with a mean of 20. Scores 18, 22, 25 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 20th October 1998Of 57 students, 34 study French, 24 study German and 14 study both. How many study neither?
- 21st October 1998Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(99) lie?
- 22nd October 1998The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 96)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 23rd October 19983 identical cupcakes cost £3.60. Work out the cost of 5 of the same cupcakes.
- 24th October 1998Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 135°, 104° and 73°. Work out the fourth.
- 25th October 1998The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 26th October 1998220 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. 30 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 27th October 1998Work out 1/3 divided by 4/7. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 28th October 1998A rectangle is x cm wide and 6 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 29th October 1998A model of an aircraft is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 10 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 30th October 1998A trapezium has parallel sides of 12 cm and 15 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 31st October 1998Using only the digits 1, 5, 2, 4 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?