Daily Practice · Foundation
August 2008 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in August 2008, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in August 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 20088 identical notebooks cost £15.60. Work out the cost of 10 of the same notebooks.
- 2nd August 2008A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 17 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 3rd August 2008The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 4th August 2008In a group of 90 students, 30 are boys. 15 boys and 30 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 5th August 2008A length x is 600 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 6th August 2008A rectangle is x cm wide and 3 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 7th August 2008A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 9 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 8th August 2008The point (-7, 5) is reflected in the y-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 9th August 2008Using only the digits 2, 6, 7, 5 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 10th August 2008In a survey 3 households own 1 car, 8 own 2 cars and 4 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 11th August 2008Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(47) lie?
- 12th August 2008Use v = u + at with u = 11, a = 9 and t = 8. Work out v.
- 13th August 2008A 900 g bag of coffee costs £5.85. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 14th August 2008The bearing of B from A is 119°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 15th August 2008Here are 5 numbers: 25, 21, 19, 17, 23. Work out the mean.
- 16th August 2008A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 4, 6, 12 and 8. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 17th August 2008Work out 1/5 divided by 5/6. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 18th August 2008A sequence has nth term 8n + 9. Work out the 10th term.
- 19th August 2008£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £100 buy?
- 20th August 2008A cuboid measures 13 cm by 12 cm by 12 cm. Work out its volume.
- 21st August 2008Here are seven numbers: 5, 25, 28, 4, 7, 8, 22. Work out the median and the range.
- 22nd August 2008A scatter graph plots a person's shoe size and their height. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 23rd August 2008A length x is 730 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 24th August 2008Solve the inequality 6x + 10 < 58.
- 25th August 2008A recipe for 8 pancakes uses 272 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 3 pancakes?
- 26th August 2008Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 64°. Work out the other.
- 27th August 2008A bag holds 4 red, 5 blue and 4 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is green.
- 28th August 2008A pie chart shows 90 people. 27 of them chose maths. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 29th August 2008Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(15) lie?
- 30th August 2008Simplify 8a + 9b + 6a - 9b.
- 31st August 20085 identical pens cost £11.75. Work out the cost of 2 of the same pens.