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December 2016 - Foundation 5-a-day

Every Foundation sheet published in December 2016, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.

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December 2016

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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Every sheet in December 2016

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 2016Here are seven numbers: 8, 5, 28, 22, 14, 25, 19. Work out the median and the range.
  2. 2nd December 2016In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 5 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  3. 3rd December 2016A length x is 61 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
  4. 4th December 2016Solve the inequality 4x - 15 >= 41.
  5. 5th December 2016£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £320 buy?
  6. 6th December 2016The bearing of B from A is 311°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  7. 7th December 2016A bag holds 2 red, 6 blue and 4 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
  8. 8th December 2016A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 4, 11, 7 and 2. How many values are in the whole data set?
  9. 9th December 2016Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(57) lie?
  10. 10th December 2016Simplify 4a + 6b + 4a - 9b.
  11. 11th December 2016A recipe for 6 muffins uses 132 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 muffins?
  12. 12th December 2016A cuboid measures 4 cm by 6 cm by 13 cm. Work out its volume.
  13. 13th December 2016A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  14. 14th December 2016A scatter graph plots rainfall in a week and the number of umbrellas sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
  15. 15th December 2016Work out 1/6 divided by 2/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  16. 16th December 2016A line has equation y = 5x - 25. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  17. 17th December 20167 identical pens cost £16.10. Work out the cost of 12 of the same pens.
  18. 18th December 2016Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 98°. Work out the other.
  19. 19th December 2016Ellis has 5 scores with a mean of 19. Scores 16, 22, 23, 15 are known. Work out the missing score.
  20. 20th December 2016A pie chart shows 18 people. 11 of them chose history. Work out the angle of that sector.
  21. 21st December 2016A length x is 3.8 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
  22. 22nd December 2016The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 72)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  23. 23rd December 2016A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 1.8 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  24. 24th December 2016Two of the angles in a triangle are 79° and 70°. Work out the third angle.
  25. 25th December 2016The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/5. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  26. 26th December 2016150 students were asked how they travel. 50 walked, and of those 15 were late. How many walkers were on time?
  27. 27th December 2016Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(63) lie?
  28. 28th December 2016A rectangle is x cm wide and 6 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
  29. 29th December 2016A 1100 g bag of pasta costs £12.65. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  30. 30th December 2016A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 6 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  31. 31st December 2016Using only the digits 7, 6, 8, 2 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?

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