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December 1998 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in December 1998, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in December 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1998A box plot has minimum 13, lower quartile 20, median 27, upper quartile 33 and maximum 35. Work out the interquartile range.
- 2nd December 1998A meal deal has 5 mains, 8 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 3rd December 1998Make x the subject of y = 7x^2 - 9.
- 4th December 1998A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 8 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 5th December 1998Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 6th December 1998A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 7th December 1998A scatter graph plots the day of the month and the temperature at noon. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 8th December 1998A bill is £624 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 9th December 1998The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 68)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 10th December 1998A pack of 4 batteries costs £2.00. A pack of 8 costs £3.52. Which pack is better value?
- 11th December 1998The bearing of B from A is 217°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 12th December 1998A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 13th December 1998Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 20 < x <= 30. The frequencies in order are 21, 3, 11, 16, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 14th December 1998Work out (4 x 10^10) / (2 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 15th December 1998Expand and simplify 3(5x - 5).
- 16th December 1998Work out 60% of 320.
- 17th December 1998A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 9 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 18th December 1998A bag holds 9 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th December 1998Of 33 students, 19 study French, 17 study German and 10 study both. How many study neither?
- 20th December 1998A meal deal has 4 mains, 8 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 21st December 1998A line has equation y = 5x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 22nd December 1998Write the ratio 6 : 12 in the form 1 : n.
- 23rd December 1998A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 13 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 24th December 1998A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 25th December 1998In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 3 own 2 cars and 4 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 26th December 1998A bill is £168 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 27th December 1998Solve 4(x + 9) = 60.
- 28th December 1998A coach travels 70 km in 0.5 hours, then 80 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 29th December 1998Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 138°, 96° and 72°. Work out the fourth.
- 30th December 1998A bag holds 5 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 31st December 1998A box plot has a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 45. Work out the range.