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March 1999 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in March 1999, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in March 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1999Of 50 students, 41 study French, 19 study German and 14 study both. How many study neither?
- 2nd March 1999Work out 1/2 x 1/3. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 3rd March 1999A rectangle is x cm wide and 3 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 4th March 1999A 800 g bag of rice costs £6.80. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 5th March 1999Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 99°, 132° and 96°. Work out the fourth.
- 6th March 1999Using only the digits 6, 7, 2, 1 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 7th March 1999220 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 30 said yes. 20 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 8th March 1999A length x is 550 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 9th March 1999Use v = u + at with u = 11, a = 6 and t = 7. Work out v.
- 10th March 1999£1 is worth 1.15 euros. How many euros does £380 buy?
- 11th March 1999A trapezium has parallel sides of 14 cm and 26 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 12th March 1999Here are 7 numbers: 22, 20, 14, 12, 18, 17, 16. Work out the mean.
- 13th March 1999In a group of 50 students, 30 are boys. 5 boys and 5 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 14th March 1999Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(129) lie?
- 15th March 1999A sequence has nth term 3n - 1. Work out the 12th term.
- 16th March 1999A recipe for 12 flapjacks uses 528 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 15 flapjacks?
- 17th March 1999The point (-1, 5) is reflected in the y-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 18th March 1999Here are seven numbers: 13, 7, 4, 2, 19, 11, 25. Work out the median and the range.
- 19th March 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.
- 20th March 1999Work out 2/4 x 3/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 21st March 1999Solve the inequality 3x - 11 >= 25.
- 22nd March 19995 identical pens cost £2.50. Work out the cost of 6 of the same pens.
- 23rd March 1999The bearing of B from A is 083°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 24th March 1999A bag holds 5 red, 9 blue and 9 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 25th March 1999A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 6, 4, 12 and 7. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 26th March 1999A length x is 44 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 27th March 1999Simplify 3a + 9b + 8a - 3b.
- 28th March 1999A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 0.75 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 29th March 1999A cuboid measures 9 cm by 3 cm by 7 cm. Work out its volume.
- 30th March 1999A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st March 1999A scatter graph plots a car's engine size and the miles it does per gallon. What type of correlation would you expect?