Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 1998 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in May 1998, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in May 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1998Factorise x^2 - 4x - 32.
- 2nd May 1998Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 9. There are 70 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 3rd May 1998Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 4th May 1998A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 5th May 1998A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 124 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 6th May 1998A bill is £264 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 7th May 1998Does the point (-4, 11) satisfy y > -2x + 1?
- 8th May 1998A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 8.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 9th May 1998The bearing of B from A is 237°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 10th May 1998A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 11th May 199880 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 40 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 12th May 1998Work out (12 x 10^12) / (2 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 13th May 1998A line has gradient 4 and passes through (6, 31). Work out its equation.
- 14th May 1998A pack of 11 sponges costs £3.30. A pack of 44 costs £11.88. Which pack is better value?
- 15th May 1998A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 16th May 1998A bag holds 4 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 17th May 1998A box plot has minimum 13, lower quartile 21, median 24, upper quartile 33 and maximum 42. Work out the interquartile range.
- 18th May 1998A meal deal has 8 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 19th May 1998Make x the subject of y = 7x^2 - 5.
- 20th May 1998Work out 60% of 160.
- 21st May 1998A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 10 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 22nd May 1998A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 23rd May 1998A scatter graph plots a pupil's height and their score in a spelling test. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 24th May 1998A bill is £528 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 25th May 1998The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 82)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 26th May 1998Write the ratio 4 : 8 in the form 1 : n.
- 27th May 1998Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 133°, 99° and 64°. Work out the fourth.
- 28th May 1998A bag holds 4 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 29th May 1998Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 10 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 21, 7, 3, 11, 16. Write down the modal class.
- 30th May 1998Work out (64 x 10^10) / (8 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 31st May 1998Expand and simplify 9(9x - 9).