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October 2010 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in October 2010, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in October 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2010A line has equation y = 2x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 2nd October 2010A 700 g bag of pasta costs £1.75. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 3rd October 2010A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 18 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 4th October 2010Amelia has 5 scores with a mean of 18. Scores 21, 15, 18, 16 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 5th October 2010In a group of 140 students, 50 are boys. 20 boys and 30 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 6th October 2010A length x is 3.6 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 7th October 2010The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 19)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 8th October 2010£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £120 buy?
- 9th October 2010The point (6, -8) is reflected in the y-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 10th October 2010The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 11th October 2010In a survey 9 households own 1 car, 5 own 2 cars and 5 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 12th October 2010Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(27) lie?
- 13th October 2010A rectangle is x cm wide and 7 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 14th October 2010A recipe for 8 scones uses 344 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 20 scones?
- 15th October 2010The bearing of B from A is 146°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 16th October 2010Using only the digits 2, 8, 9 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 17th October 2010A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 11, 5, 7 and 5. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 18th October 2010Work out 5/6 divided by 6/7. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 19th October 2010Use v = u + at with u = 15, a = 5 and t = 7. Work out v.
- 20th October 20106 identical notebooks cost £13.50. Work out the cost of 8 of the same notebooks.
- 21st October 2010A cuboid measures 8 cm by 4 cm by 15 cm. Work out its volume.
- 22nd October 2010Here are 5 numbers: 30, 26, 31, 28, 25. Work out the mean.
- 23rd October 2010A scatter graph plots a house's floor area and its asking price. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 24th October 2010A length x is 73 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 25th October 2010A sequence has nth term 5n + 8. Work out the 12th term.
- 26th October 2010A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 4 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 27th October 2010Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 81°. Work out the other.
- 28th October 2010Here are seven numbers: 13, 8, 19, 17, 2, 4, 22. Work out the median and the range.
- 29th October 2010A pie chart shows 90 people. 36 of them chose science. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 30th October 2010Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(138) lie?
- 31st October 2010Solve the inequality 4x + 15 < 39.