Daily Practice · Foundation
August 2009 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in August 2009, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in August 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2009Simplify 2a + 8b + 7a - 7b.
- 2nd August 2009A model of an aircraft is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 1.4 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 3rd August 2009A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 10 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 4th August 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 5th August 2009On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 5 people. A bar is 3 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 6th August 2009Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(159) lie?
- 7th August 2009A line has equation y = 4x - 24. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 8th August 2009A 1100 g bag of coffee costs £11.55. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 9th August 2009An L-shape is a 16 cm by 20 cm rectangle with a 13 cm by 14 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 10th August 2009Callum has 5 scores with a mean of 7. Scores 1, 7, 3, 11 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 11th August 2009A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 2 with the leaves 1, 2, 3, 8, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 12th August 2009Work out 1/9 divided by 5/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 13th August 2009The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 60)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 14th August 2009£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £400 buy?
- 15th August 2009A cuboid measures 10 cm by 3 cm by 9 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 16th August 2009The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 17th August 2009A pie chart shows 20 items. One sector has an angle of 216°. How many items does it represent?
- 18th August 2009A length x is 570 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 19th August 2009A rectangle is x cm wide and 3 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 20th August 2009A recipe for 6 muffins uses 162 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 20 muffins?
- 21st August 2009The point (-6, -5) is rotated 180° about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 22nd August 2009Using only the digits 7, 8, 4 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 23rd August 2009Of 40 students, 24 study French, 23 study German and 11 study both. How many study neither?
- 24th August 2009Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(109) lie?
- 25th August 2009Use v = u + at with u = 10, a = 2 and t = 8. Work out v.
- 26th August 20094 identical batteries cost £5.40. Work out the cost of 10 of the same batteries.
- 27th August 2009Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 40°, 105° and 72°. Work out the fourth.
- 28th August 2009Here are 7 numbers: 17, 22, 22, 23, 12, 11, 12. Work out the mean.
- 29th August 2009210 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 20 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 30th August 2009Work out 3/4 divided by 5/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 31st August 2009A sequence has nth term 7n - 9. Work out the 25th term.