Daily Practice · Foundation
September 2008 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in September 2008, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in September 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2008Two of the angles in a triangle are 30° and 25°. Work out the third angle.
- 2nd September 2008A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 3rd September 2008170 students were asked how they travel. 60 walked, and of those 25 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 4th September 2008Work out 2/3 divided by 2/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 5th September 2008A line has equation y = 6x - 18. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 6th September 2008A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 50. The real length is 3 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 7th September 2008A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 6 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 8th September 2008Aisha has 5 scores with a mean of 20. Scores 17, 20, 22, 18 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 9th September 2008On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 4 people. A bar is 5 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 10th September 2008A length x is 580 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 11th September 2008The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 132)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 12th September 2008A 500 g bag of rice costs £1.25. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 13th September 2008An L-shape is a 17 cm by 11 cm rectangle with a 11 cm by 4 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 14th September 2008The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/2. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 15th September 2008A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 4 with the leaves 0, 1, 4, 5, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 16th September 2008Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(127) lie?
- 17th September 2008A rectangle is x cm wide and 2 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 18th September 2008£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £360 buy?
- 19th September 2008A cuboid measures 2 cm by 8 cm by 12 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 20th September 2008Using only the digits 4, 1, 9, 6 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 21st September 2008A pie chart shows 20 items. One sector has an angle of 108°. How many items does it represent?
- 22nd September 2008Work out 4/5 divided by 7/8. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 23rd September 2008Use v = u + at with u = 9, a = 5 and t = 8. Work out v.
- 24th September 2008A recipe for 8 muffins uses 256 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 muffins?
- 25th September 2008The point (3, 0) is rotated 90° anticlockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 26th September 2008Here are 6 numbers: 16, 10, 14, 17, 20, 13. Work out the mean.
- 27th September 2008Of 55 students, 28 study French, 22 study German and 7 study both. How many study neither?
- 28th September 2008A length x is 62 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 29th September 2008A sequence has nth term 5n - 8. Work out the 12th term.
- 30th September 20085 identical notebooks cost £9.75. Work out the cost of 2 of the same notebooks.