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April 1999 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day

Every Foundation Plus sheet published in April 1999, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.

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April 1999

30 sheets · 150 questions · Grades 4-6

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Every sheet in April 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 April 1999Work out (12 x 10^12) / (3 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  2. 2nd April 1999Does the point (2, -12) satisfy y > -x - 5?
  3. 3rd April 1999Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 2 : 9. There are 28 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
  4. 4th April 1999A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 11 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  5. 5th April 1999A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  6. 6th April 1999230 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  7. 7th April 1999A meal deal has 5 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  8. 8th April 1999A line has gradient 4 and passes through (1, 13). Work out its equation.
  9. 9th April 1999A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 5.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
  10. 10th April 1999A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 16 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
  11. 11th April 1999A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  12. 12th April 1999A box plot has minimum 5, lower quartile 8, median 15, upper quartile 23 and maximum 33. Work out the interquartile range.
  13. 13th April 1999A bill is £480 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  14. 14th April 1999Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 7.
  15. 15th April 1999A pack of 6 batteries costs £2.10. A pack of 12 costs £3.48. Which pack is better value?
  16. 16th April 1999Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 51°, 47° and 188°. Work out the fourth.
  17. 17th April 1999A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  18. 18th April 1999A scatter graph plots a car's engine size and the miles it does per gallon. What type of correlation would you expect?
  19. 19th April 1999Work out (32 x 10^6) / (8 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  20. 20th April 1999The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 20)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  21. 21st April 1999Work out 60% of 300.
  22. 22nd April 1999A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 12 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 14 cm long. Work out its volume.
  23. 23rd April 1999A bag holds 9 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  24. 24th April 1999Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 20 < x <= 25. The frequencies in order are 7, 11, 3, 16, 21. Write down the modal class.
  25. 25th April 1999A meal deal has 4 mains, 3 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  26. 26th April 1999Expand and simplify 7(6x + 9).
  27. 27th April 1999Write the ratio 3 : 6 in the form 1 : n.
  28. 28th April 1999Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
  29. 29th April 1999A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  30. 30th April 1999Of 61 students, 35 study French, 22 study German and 13 study both. How many study neither?

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