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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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March 1999

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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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.

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

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