Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
August 1997 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 1997, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in August 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1997A bag holds 6 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 2nd August 1997Four classes in order have frequencies 12, 8, 4, 5. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 3rd August 1997A meal deal has 7 mains, 4 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 4th August 1997For the curve y = 9/x, work out y when x = 1, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 5th August 1997Write the ratio 6 : 24 in the form 1 : n.
- 6th August 1997A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 20 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 7th August 1997A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 8th August 199710 newts are marked and released. Later 35 are caught, of which 5 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 9th August 1997A bill is £384 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 10th August 1997Factorise x^2 - 3x - 18.
- 11th August 1997A coach travels 20 km in 0.5 hours, then 70 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 12th August 1997Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 135°, 103° and 87°. Work out the fourth.
- 13th August 1997A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 14th August 1997A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 52 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 15th August 1997Work out (25 x 10^6) / (5 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 16th August 1997Does the point (1, 11) satisfy y > 2x + 5?
- 17th August 1997Ellis drives 180 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 18th August 1997A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 20 cm and height 4 cm. The prism is 11 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 19th August 1997A bag holds 2 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 20th August 1997210 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 21st August 1997A meal deal has 5 mains, 9 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 22nd August 1997A line has gradient 4 and passes through (6, 28). Work out its equation.
- 23rd August 1997Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 3 : 8. There are 42 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 24th August 1997Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 25th August 1997A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 26th August 1997A box plot has minimum 9, lower quartile 18, median 27, upper quartile 37 and maximum 47. Work out the interquartile range.
- 27th August 1997A bill is £912 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 28th August 1997Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 12.
- 29th August 1997A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 12 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 30th August 1997The bearing of B from A is 081°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 31st August 1997A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.