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August 2016 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in August 2016, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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Every sheet in August 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2016A 1000 g bag of oats costs £2.50. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 2nd August 2016A cuboid measures 8 cm by 9 cm by 11 cm. Work out its volume.
- 3rd August 2016A bag holds 7 red, 7 blue and 7 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is green.
- 4th August 2016A scatter graph plots a person's shoe size and their height. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 5th August 2016Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(163) lie?
- 6th August 2016Simplify 4a + 3b + 8a - 6b.
- 7th August 2016£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £80 buy?
- 8th August 2016Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 118°. Work out the other.
- 9th August 2016A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 10th August 2016A pie chart shows 40 people. 24 of them chose French. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 11th August 2016Work out 4/5 x 1/2. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 12th August 2016A line has equation y = 5x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 13th August 2016A recipe for 12 scones uses 360 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 9 scones?
- 14th August 2016Two of the angles in a triangle are 56° and 65°. Work out the third angle.
- 15th August 2016Jacob has 4 scores with a mean of 19. Scores 25, 20, 13 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 16th August 2016120 students were asked how they travel. 50 walked, and of those 25 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 17th August 2016A length x is 7.1 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 18th August 2016The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 3x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 19th August 20168 identical batteries cost £4.80. Work out the cost of 7 of the same batteries.
- 20th August 2016A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 21st August 2016The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 22nd August 2016On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 4 people. A bar is 6 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 23rd August 2016Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(17) lie?
- 24th August 2016A rectangle is x cm wide and 7 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 25th August 2016A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 1.4 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 26th August 2016An L-shape is a 15 cm by 14 cm rectangle with a 10 cm by 2 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 27th August 2016Using only the digits 1, 3, 2 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 28th August 2016A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 6 with the leaves 0, 1, 4, 6, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 29th August 2016Work out 1/5 divided by 3/5. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 30th August 2016Use v = u + at with u = 11, a = 3 and t = 3. Work out v.
- 31st August 2016A 600 g bag of rice costs £3.90. Work out the cost per 100 g.