Daily Practice · Foundation
March 2016 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in March 2016, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in March 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2016140 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 25 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 2nd March 2016Work out 2/3 x 6/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 3rd March 2016The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 4th March 2016A 700 g bag of pasta costs £4.90. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 5th March 2016A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 17 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 6th March 2016The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/10. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 7th March 2016In a group of 60 students, 70 are boys. 10 boys and 5 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 8th March 2016A length x is 4.9 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 9th March 2016A rectangle is x cm wide and 9 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 10th March 2016£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £160 buy?
- 11th March 2016The point (-5, -7) is reflected in the x-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 12th March 2016Using only the digits 8, 4, 9 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 13th March 2016In a survey 2 households own 1 car, 6 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 14th March 2016Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(153) lie?
- 15th March 2016Use v = u + at with u = 4, a = 3 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 16th March 2016A recipe for 12 flapjacks uses 504 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 20 flapjacks?
- 17th March 2016The bearing of B from A is 303°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 18th March 2016Here are 6 numbers: 9, 7, 17, 15, 16, 8. Work out the mean.
- 19th March 2016A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 6, 8, 11 and 4. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 20th March 2016Work out 4/5 x 5/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 21st March 2016A sequence has nth term 2n + 9. Work out the 25th term.
- 22nd March 20165 identical batteries cost £8.00. Work out the cost of 11 of the same batteries.
- 23rd March 2016A cuboid measures 9 cm by 15 cm by 3 cm. Work out its volume.
- 24th March 2016Here are seven numbers: 11, 25, 5, 13, 17, 2, 4. Work out the median and the range.
- 25th March 2016A scatter graph plots rainfall in a week and the number of umbrellas sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 26th March 2016A length x is 740 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 27th March 2016Solve the inequality 7x - 12 > 86.
- 28th March 2016A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 2.5 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 29th March 2016Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 102°. Work out the other.
- 30th March 2016A bag holds 3 red, 7 blue and 4 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is blue.
- 31st March 2016A pie chart shows 72 people. 33 of them chose history. Work out the angle of that sector.