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March 1999 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in March 1999, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in March 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1999In a survey 2 households own 1 car, 5 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 2nd March 1999A meal deal has 3 mains, 3 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 3rd March 1999Solve 4(x - 7) = -8.
- 4th March 1999A pack of 6 pencils costs £1.80. A pack of 12 costs £3.48. Which pack is better value?
- 5th March 1999A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 8 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 6th March 1999A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 7th March 1999A box plot has a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 45. Work out the range.
- 8th March 1999A bill is £432 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 9th March 1999Use v = u + at with u = 11, a = 4 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 10th March 1999Work out 5% of 320.
- 11th March 1999Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 138°, 134° and 35°. Work out the fourth.
- 12th March 1999A bag holds 4 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 13th March 1999A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 2x + 22. Use it to estimate y when x = 8.
- 14th March 1999Work out (9 x 10^8) / (3 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 15th March 19995 teas and 1 cake cost £7.90. 4 teas and 2 cakes cost £9.50. Find the price of a tea.
- 16th March 1999Write the ratio 6 : 54 in the form 1 : n.
- 17th March 1999A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 14 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 11 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 18th March 1999A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th March 1999Four classes in order have frequencies 5, 9, 10, 11. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 20th March 1999A meal deal has 7 mains, 6 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 21st March 1999For the curve y = -60/x, work out y when x = -10, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 22nd March 1999A coach travels 50 km in 1.5 hours, then 30 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 23rd March 1999Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
- 24th March 1999A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 25th March 199925 voles are marked and released. Later 42 are caught, of which 7 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 26th March 1999A bill is £168 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 27th March 1999Factorise x^2 + 2x - 48.
- 28th March 1999Musa drives 90 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 29th March 1999The bearing of B from A is 271°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 30th March 1999A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 31st March 1999A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 96 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?