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October 2005 - Foundation 5-a-day

Every Foundation sheet published in October 2005, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.

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October 2005

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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Every sheet in October 2005

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  1. 1st October 2005A scatter graph plots the age of a car and its value. What type of correlation would you expect?
  2. 2nd October 2005Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(85) lie?
  3. 3rd October 2005A sequence has nth term 9n - 9. Work out the 25th term.
  4. 4th October 2005£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £500 buy?
  5. 5th October 2005Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 114°. Work out the other.
  6. 6th October 2005Here are seven numbers: 14, 7, 2, 28, 11, 4, 22. Work out the median and the range.
  7. 7th October 2005A pie chart shows 12 people. 9 of them chose art. Work out the angle of that sector.
  8. 8th October 2005Work out 2/8 divided by 5/6. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  9. 9th October 2005Solve the inequality 4x + 1 <= 61.
  10. 10th October 2005A recipe for 6 pancakes uses 162 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 3 pancakes?
  11. 11th October 2005Two of the angles in a triangle are 50° and 76°. Work out the third angle.
  12. 12th October 2005A bag holds 5 red, 6 blue and 6 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
  13. 13th October 200560 students were asked how they travel. 60 walked, and of those 5 were late. How many walkers were on time?
  14. 14th October 2005A length x is 850 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
  15. 15th October 2005Simplify 3a + 6b + 6a - 3b.
  16. 16th October 20053 identical pens cost £7.35. Work out the cost of 8 of the same pens.
  17. 17th October 2005A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  18. 18th October 2005A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  19. 19th October 2005On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 5 people. A bar is 7 squares tall. How many people does it show?
  20. 20th October 2005Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(12) lie?
  21. 21st October 2005A line has equation y = 4x - 4. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  22. 22nd October 2005A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 8 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  23. 23rd October 2005An L-shape is a 10 cm by 20 cm rectangle with a 4 cm by 2 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
  24. 24th October 2005Finlay has 4 scores with a mean of 19. Scores 22, 16, 22 are known. Work out the missing score.
  25. 25th October 2005A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 3 with the leaves 0, 1, 2, 7, 8. Work out the median of the five values.
  26. 26th October 2005Work out 5/9 x 2/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  27. 27th October 2005The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 110)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  28. 28th October 2005A 1000 g bag of rice costs £5.50. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  29. 29th October 2005A cuboid measures 10 cm by 7 cm by 4 cm. Work out its total surface area.
  30. 30th October 2005The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/5. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  31. 31st October 2005A pie chart shows 36 items. One sector has an angle of 110°. How many items does it represent?

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