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October 1998 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in October 1998, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in October 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1998A bag holds 9 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 2nd October 1998A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of ice creams sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 3rd October 1998Work out (81 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 4th October 1998The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 89)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 5th October 1998A coach travels 30 km in 0.5 hours, then 30 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 6th October 1998A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 7th October 1998A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 8th October 1998Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 10 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 21, 7, 16, 11, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 9th October 1998A meal deal has 7 mains, 3 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 10th October 1998Expand and simplify 8(7x - 5).
- 11th October 1998Kwame drives 140 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 12th October 1998A trapezium has parallel sides of 5 cm and 16 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 13th October 1998A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 14th October 1998Of 64 students, 42 study French, 33 study German and 15 study both. How many study neither?
- 15th October 1998A bill is £216 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 16th October 1998A line has equation y = 4x - 24. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 17th October 1998Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 4 : 5. There are 12 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
- 18th October 1998Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 108°, 44° and 50°. Work out the fourth.
- 19th October 1998A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 20th October 1998In a survey 5 households own 1 car, 5 own 2 cars and 5 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 21st October 1998Work out (36 x 10^8) / (6 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 22nd October 1998Solve 6(x + 2) = 84.
- 23rd October 1998A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 4.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 24th October 1998A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 10 cm and height 11 cm. The prism is 12 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 25th October 1998A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 26th October 1998A box plot has a minimum of 18 and a maximum of 38. Work out the range.
- 27th October 1998A meal deal has 9 mains, 7 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 28th October 1998Use v = u + at with u = 5, a = 8 and t = 8. Work out v.
- 29th October 1998A pack of 4 sponges costs £2.40. A pack of 16 costs £9.12. Which pack is better value?
- 30th October 1998Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 31st October 1998A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?