Daily Practice · Foundation
January 1999 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in January 1999, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in January 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1999Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(129) lie?
- 2nd January 1999Simplify 2a + 2b + 6a - 6b.
- 3rd January 1999A 500 g bag of coffee costs £5.50. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 4th January 1999A trapezium has parallel sides of 5 cm and 7 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 5th January 1999A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 6th January 1999In a group of 120 students, 50 are boys. 10 boys and 35 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 7th January 1999Work out 3/8 divided by 4/5. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 8th January 1999A line has equation y = 5x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 9th January 1999£1 is worth 1.15 euros. How many euros does £300 buy?
- 10th January 1999The point (2, 2) is reflected in the x-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 11th January 1999Freya has 5 scores with a mean of 12. Scores 12, 8, 6, 18 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 12th January 1999In a survey 4 households own 1 car, 3 own 2 cars and 7 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 13th January 1999A length x is 3.8 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 14th January 1999The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 3x° and (x + 120)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 15th January 1999A recipe for 12 muffins uses 492 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 muffins?
- 16th January 1999The bearing of B from A is 211°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 17th January 1999The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/8. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 18th January 1999A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 8, 6, 8 and 7. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 19th January 1999Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(120) lie?
- 20th January 1999A rectangle is x cm wide and 3 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 21st January 19998 identical notebooks cost £12.00. Work out the cost of 6 of the same notebooks.
- 22nd January 1999A cuboid measures 15 cm by 11 cm by 12 cm. Work out its volume.
- 23rd January 1999Using only the digits 3, 2, 7, 9 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 24th January 1999A scatter graph plots how far a lorry has driven and the fuel left in its tank. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 25th January 1999Work out 4/6 divided by 2/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 26th January 1999Use v = u + at with u = 7, a = 8 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 27th January 1999A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 1.8 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 28th January 1999Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 56°. Work out the other.
- 29th January 1999Here are 5 numbers: 12, 7, 17, 11, 13. Work out the mean.
- 30th January 1999A pie chart shows 18 people. 5 of them chose maths. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 31st January 1999A length x is 15 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.