Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 2001 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in May 2001, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in May 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2001In a survey 5 households own 1 car, 7 own 2 cars and 3 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 2nd May 2001A meal deal has 8 mains, 8 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 3rd May 2001Solve 5(x + 3) = 65.
- 4th May 2001A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 15 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 5th May 2001A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 15 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 6th May 2001A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 7th May 2001A box plot has a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 68. Work out the range.
- 8th May 2001A bill is £216 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 9th May 2001Use v = u + at with u = 12, a = 6 and t = 7. Work out v.
- 10th May 2001A pack of 7 batteries costs £2.45. A pack of 14 costs £4.20. Which pack is better value?
- 11th May 2001Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 132°, 96° and 94°. Work out the fourth.
- 12th May 2001A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 13th May 2001A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 3x + 32. Use it to estimate y when x = 3.
- 14th May 2001Work out (42 x 10^6) / (7 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 15th May 20012 teas and 1 cake cost £6.45. 3 teas and 4 cakes cost £14.55. Find the price of a tea.
- 16th May 2001Work out 5% of 140.
- 17th May 2001A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 12 cm and height 13 cm. The prism is 20 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 18th May 2001A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th May 2001Four classes in order have frequencies 7, 6, 5, 9. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 20th May 2001A meal deal has 8 mains, 4 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 21st May 2001For the curve y = -10/x, work out y when x = -2, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 22nd May 2001Write the ratio 7 : 49 in the form 1 : n.
- 23rd May 2001Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 24th May 2001A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 25th May 200110 fish are marked and released. Later 35 are caught, of which 5 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 26th May 2001A bill is £168 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 27th May 2001Factorise x^2 + 3x + 2.
- 28th May 2001A coach travels 20 km in 1.5 hours, then 40 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 29th May 2001The bearing of B from A is 352°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 30th May 2001A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 31st May 2001A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 84 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?