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May 2000 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day

Every Foundation Plus sheet published in May 2000, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.

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May 2000

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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Every sheet in May 2000

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st May 2000Work out (8 x 10^6) / (2 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  2. 2nd May 2000Does the point (-2, 18) satisfy y > -3x + 4?
  3. 3rd May 2000Work out 40% of 240.
  4. 4th May 2000A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 6 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  5. 5th May 2000A bag holds 2 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  6. 6th May 2000150 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. 25 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  7. 7th May 2000A meal deal has 6 mains, 6 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  8. 8th May 2000A line has gradient 4 and passes through (4, 18). Work out its equation.
  9. 9th May 2000Write the ratio 6 : 36 in the form 1 : n.
  10. 10th May 2000A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 12 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
  11. 11th May 2000A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  12. 12th May 2000A box plot has minimum 11, lower quartile 18, median 26, upper quartile 34 and maximum 42. Work out the interquartile range.
  13. 13th May 2000A bill is £528 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  14. 14th May 2000Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 8.
  15. 15th May 2000A coach travels 50 km in 1.5 hours, then 50 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  16. 16th May 2000Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 137°, 98° and 82°. Work out the fourth.
  17. 17th May 2000A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  18. 18th May 2000A scatter graph plots a runner's time for 100 m and the distance they can throw a ball. What type of correlation would you expect?
  19. 19th May 2000Work out (40 x 10^11) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  20. 20th May 2000The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 80)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  21. 21st May 2000Bea drives 125 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  22. 22nd May 2000A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 4 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.
  23. 23rd May 2000A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  24. 24th May 2000Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 10 < x <= 15. The frequencies in order are 7, 21, 3, 11, 16. Write down the modal class.
  25. 25th May 2000A meal deal has 6 mains, 5 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  26. 26th May 2000Expand and simplify 5(4x - 2).
  27. 27th May 2000Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 3 : 8. There are 36 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
  28. 28th May 2000Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
  29. 29th May 2000A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  30. 30th May 2000Of 71 students, 35 study French, 34 study German and 10 study both. How many study neither?
  31. 31st May 2000A bill is £216 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.

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