Daily Practice · Foundation
May 2009 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in May 2009, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' May 2009 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in May 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2009In a survey 8 households own 1 car, 4 own 2 cars and 8 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 2nd May 2009A length x is 870 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 3rd May 2009Solve the inequality 6x - 9 > 51.
- 4th May 2009A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 7 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 5th May 2009The bearing of B from A is 029°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 6th May 2009A bag holds 8 red, 6 blue and 9 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is green.
- 7th May 2009A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 11, 9, 12 and 2. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 8th May 2009Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(106) lie?
- 9th May 2009Simplify 9a + 7b + 8a - 2b.
- 10th May 2009A 800 g bag of pasta costs £5.60. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 11th May 2009A cuboid measures 4 cm by 7 cm by 4 cm. Work out its volume.
- 12th May 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 13th May 2009A scatter graph plots the day of the month and the temperature at noon. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 14th May 2009Work out 2/3 x 8/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 15th May 2009A line has equation y = 4x - 8. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 16th May 2009£1 is worth 1.15 euros. How many euros does £120 buy?
- 17th May 2009Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 107°. Work out the other.
- 18th May 2009Oliwia has 5 scores with a mean of 6. Scores 1, 11, 9, 3 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 19th May 2009A pie chart shows 45 people. 8 of them chose maths. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 20th May 2009A length x is 720 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 21st May 2009The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 48)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 22nd May 2009A recipe for 4 muffins uses 136 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 muffins?
- 23rd May 2009Two of the angles in a triangle are 89° and 52°. Work out the third angle.
- 24th May 2009The probability that it rains tomorrow is 13/20. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 25th May 2009150 students were asked how they travel. 60 walked, and of those 15 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 26th May 2009Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(96) lie?
- 27th May 2009A rectangle is x cm wide and 4 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 28th May 20098 identical batteries cost £10.40. Work out the cost of 3 of the same batteries.
- 29th May 2009A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 30th May 2009Using only the digits 9, 8, 4, 7 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 31st May 2009On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 2 people. A bar is 2 squares tall. How many people does it show?