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October 1999 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in October 1999, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in October 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1999A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 2nd October 1999A bag holds 9 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 3rd October 1999Four classes in order have frequencies 4, 6, 6, 4. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 4th October 1999A meal deal has 8 mains, 5 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 5th October 1999For the curve y = 12/x, work out y when x = -4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 6th October 1999Work out 25% of 180.
- 7th October 1999A trapezium has parallel sides of 8 cm and 11 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 8th October 1999A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 9th October 199935 beetles are marked and released. Later 48 are caught, of which 6 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 10th October 1999A bill is £456 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 11th October 1999Factorise x^2 - 16.
- 12th October 1999Write the ratio 3 : 6 in the form 1 : n.
- 13th October 1999Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 75°, 55° and 113°. Work out the fourth.
- 14th October 1999A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th October 1999A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 140 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 16th October 1999Work out (56 x 10^7) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 17th October 1999Does the point (1, -6) satisfy y > -4x - 5?
- 18th October 1999A coach travels 70 km in 0.5 hours, then 40 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 19th October 1999A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 10 cm and height 9 cm. The prism is 20 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 20th October 1999A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 21st October 1999180 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 35 said yes. 45 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 22nd October 1999A meal deal has 5 mains, 8 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 23rd October 1999A line has gradient -4 and passes through (4, -20). Work out its equation.
- 24th October 1999Rohan drives 140 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 25th October 1999Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 26th October 1999A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 27th October 1999A box plot has minimum 10, lower quartile 17, median 24, upper quartile 27 and maximum 37. Work out the interquartile range.
- 28th October 1999A bill is £120 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 29th October 1999Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 9.
- 30th October 1999Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 5 : 6. There are 15 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 31st October 1999The bearing of B from A is 195°. Work out the bearing of A from B.