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October 2018 - Foundation 5-a-day

Every Foundation sheet published in October 2018, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.

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October 2018

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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Every sheet in October 2018

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  1. 1st October 2018A sequence has nth term 7n - 3. Work out the 20th term.
  2. 2nd October 2018A recipe for 12 muffins uses 504 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 9 muffins?
  3. 3rd October 2018A cuboid measures 13 cm by 3 cm by 7 cm. Work out its volume.
  4. 4th October 2018Here are seven numbers: 14, 7, 17, 25, 22, 19, 5. Work out the median and the range.
  5. 5th October 2018A scatter graph plots the age of a car and its value. What type of correlation would you expect?
  6. 6th October 2018Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(29) lie?
  7. 7th October 2018Solve the inequality 5x - 6 >= 29.
  8. 8th October 20184 identical batteries cost £1.20. Work out the cost of 11 of the same batteries.
  9. 9th October 2018Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 37°. Work out the other.
  10. 10th October 2018A bag holds 9 red, 5 blue and 9 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
  11. 11th October 2018A pie chart shows 12 people. 6 of them chose maths. Work out the angle of that sector.
  12. 12th October 2018Work out 3/4 x 3/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  13. 13th October 2018Simplify 6a + 2b + 9a - 4b.
  14. 14th October 2018A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 0.5 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  15. 15th October 2018Two of the angles in a triangle are 61° and 65°. Work out the third angle.
  16. 16th October 2018A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  17. 17th October 2018170 students were asked how they travel. 30 walked, and of those 10 were late. How many walkers were on time?
  18. 18th October 2018A length x is 84 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
  19. 19th October 2018A line has equation y = 3x - 3. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  20. 20th October 2018A 700 g bag of rice costs £7.00. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  21. 21st October 2018A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  22. 22nd October 2018Tomasz has 4 scores with a mean of 12. Scores 11, 10, 13 are known. Work out the missing score.
  23. 23rd October 2018On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 4 people. A bar is 9 squares tall. How many people does it show?
  24. 24th October 2018Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(108) lie?
  25. 25th October 2018The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 95)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  26. 26th October 2018£1 is worth 1.15 euros. How many euros does £220 buy?
  27. 27th October 2018An L-shape is a 19 cm by 12 cm rectangle with a 16 cm by 9 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
  28. 28th October 2018The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  29. 29th October 2018A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 3 with the leaves 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Work out the median of the five values.
  30. 30th October 2018Work out 3/6 divided by 1/2. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  31. 31st October 2018A rectangle is x cm wide and 8 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.

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