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December 2015 - Foundation 5-a-day

Every Foundation sheet published in December 2015, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.

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December 2015

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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Every sheet in December 2015

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st December 2015A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  2. 2nd December 2015On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 4 people. A bar is 2 squares tall. How many people does it show?
  3. 3rd December 2015Work out 2/5 x 3/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  4. 4th December 2015A line has equation y = 2x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  5. 5th December 2015A 300 g bag of pasta costs £2.70. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  6. 6th December 2015An L-shape is a 12 cm by 15 cm rectangle with a 9 cm by 7 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
  7. 7th December 2015Ellis has 5 scores with a mean of 10. Scores 9, 11, 16, 10 are known. Work out the missing score.
  8. 8th December 2015A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 3 with the leaves 1, 5, 6, 7, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
  9. 9th December 2015A length x is 67 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
  10. 10th December 2015The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 33)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  11. 11th December 2015£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £80 buy?
  12. 12th December 2015A cuboid measures 7 cm by 11 cm by 12 cm. Work out its total surface area.
  13. 13th December 2015The probability that it rains tomorrow is 4/5. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  14. 14th December 2015A pie chart shows 40 items. One sector has an angle of 72°. How many items does it represent?
  15. 15th December 2015Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(10) lie?
  16. 16th December 2015A rectangle is x cm wide and 4 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
  17. 17th December 2015A recipe for 8 scones uses 288 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 scones?
  18. 18th December 2015The point (-2, 7) is rotated 90° anticlockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
  19. 19th December 2015Using only the digits 1, 4, 7, 3 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
  20. 20th December 2015Of 53 students, 18 study French, 20 study German and 4 study both. How many study neither?
  21. 21st December 2015Work out 1/4 divided by 2/3. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  22. 22nd December 2015Use v = u + at with u = 2, a = 7 and t = 3. Work out v.
  23. 23rd December 20155 identical cupcakes cost £9.25. Work out the cost of 3 of the same cupcakes.
  24. 24th December 2015Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 137°, 99° and 85°. Work out the fourth.
  25. 25th December 2015Here are 5 numbers: 8, 13, 4, 3, 12. Work out the mean.
  26. 26th December 2015190 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. 10 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  27. 27th December 2015A length x is 23 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
  28. 28th December 2015A sequence has nth term 9n + 8. Work out the 10th term.
  29. 29th December 2015A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 8 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  30. 30th December 2015A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 16 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
  31. 31st December 2015Here are seven numbers: 25, 22, 17, 11, 14, 5, 19. Work out the median and the range.

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