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May 2006 - Foundation 5-a-day

Every Foundation sheet published in May 2006, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.

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May 2006

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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Every sheet in May 2006

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  1. 1st May 2006A sequence has nth term 6n - 1. Work out the 20th term.
  2. 2nd May 2006£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £100 buy?
  3. 3rd May 2006A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 3 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  4. 4th May 2006Here are seven numbers: 25, 4, 19, 17, 2, 5, 13. Work out the median and the range.
  5. 5th May 2006On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 4 people. A bar is 6 squares tall. How many people does it show?
  6. 6th May 2006Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(34) lie?
  7. 7th May 2006Solve the inequality 2x - 13 >= -1.
  8. 8th May 2006A recipe for 10 scones uses 280 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 5 scones?
  9. 9th May 2006An L-shape is a 8 cm by 15 cm rectangle with a 3 cm by 4 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
  10. 10th May 2006A bag holds 7 red, 7 blue and 4 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is blue.
  11. 11th May 2006A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 4 with the leaves 0, 1, 3, 5, 7. Work out the median of the five values.
  12. 12th May 2006Work out 2/3 x 1/7. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  13. 13th May 2006Simplify 6a + 8b + 6a - 1b.
  14. 14th May 20063 identical notebooks cost £2.70. Work out the cost of 6 of the same notebooks.
  15. 15th May 2006A cuboid measures 12 cm by 6 cm by 7 cm. Work out its total surface area.
  16. 16th May 2006A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  17. 17th May 2006A pie chart shows 60 items. One sector has an angle of 30°. How many items does it represent?
  18. 18th May 2006A length x is 14.4 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
  19. 19th May 2006A line has equation y = 2x - 2. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  20. 20th May 2006A model of an aircraft is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 1.8 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  21. 21st May 2006The point (7, 2) is rotated 180° about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
  22. 22nd May 2006Nia has 4 scores with a mean of 17. Scores 19, 16, 15 are known. Work out the missing score.
  23. 23rd May 2006Of 69 students, 32 study French, 29 study German and 7 study both. How many study neither?
  24. 24th May 2006Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(29) lie?
  25. 25th May 2006The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 28)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  26. 26th May 2006A 400 g bag of coffee costs £1.60. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  27. 27th May 2006Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 77°, 77° and 132°. Work out the fourth.
  28. 28th May 2006The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  29. 29th May 2006150 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 35 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  30. 30th May 2006Work out 5/9 x 3/6. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  31. 31st May 2006A rectangle is x cm wide and 3 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.

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