Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 1996 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1996Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 61°, 120° and 86°. Work out the fourth.
- 2nd May 1996A bag holds 8 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 3rd May 199615 newts are marked and released. Later 55 are caught, of which 5 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 4th May 1996Work out (56 x 10^11) / (7 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 5th May 1996Factorise x^2 - 6x - 7.
- 6th May 1996A coach travels 20 km in 0.5 hours, then 60 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 7th May 1996A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 8 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 10 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 8th May 1996A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 9th May 1996A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 204 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 10th May 1996A meal deal has 5 mains, 7 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 11th May 1996Does the point (5, -6) satisfy y > -2x + 7?
- 12th May 1996Priya drives 240 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 13th May 1996Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 14th May 1996A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 15th May 1996130 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 16th May 1996A bill is £840 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 17th May 1996A line has gradient -5 and passes through (6, -24). Work out its equation.
- 18th May 1996Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 5 : 7. There are 45 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 19th May 1996The bearing of B from A is 326°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 20th May 1996A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 21st May 1996A box plot has minimum 14, lower quartile 21, median 23, upper quartile 29 and maximum 36. Work out the interquartile range.
- 22nd May 1996Work out (14 x 10^11) / (7 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 23rd May 1996Make x the subject of y = 3x^2 - 8.
- 24th May 1996A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 10.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 25th May 1996A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 26th May 1996A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 27th May 1996A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of ice creams sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 28th May 1996A meal deal has 8 mains, 5 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 29th May 1996The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 10)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 30th May 1996A pack of 9 sponges costs £3.15. A pack of 27 costs £8.37. Which pack is better value?
- 31st May 1996A trapezium has parallel sides of 8 cm and 18 cm, 10 cm apart. Work out its area.