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August 2001 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day

Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 2001, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.

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August 2001

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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Every sheet in August 2001

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

  1. 1st August 2001Factorise x^2 + x - 20.
  2. 2nd August 2001A pack of 9 batteries costs £1.35. A pack of 36 costs £3.96. Which pack is better value?
  3. 3rd August 2001Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
  4. 4th August 2001A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  5. 5th August 2001A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 184 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
  6. 6th August 2001A bill is £168 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  7. 7th August 2001Does the point (1, 7) satisfy y > 2x + 1?
  8. 8th August 2001Work out 75% of 120.
  9. 9th August 2001The bearing of B from A is 099°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  10. 10th August 2001A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  11. 11th August 2001230 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 20 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  12. 12th August 2001Work out (6 x 10^8) / (2 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  13. 13th August 2001A line has gradient -2 and passes through (4, -7). Work out its equation.
  14. 14th August 2001Write the ratio 7 : 42 in the form 1 : n.
  15. 15th August 2001A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  16. 16th August 2001A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  17. 17th August 2001A box plot has minimum 9, lower quartile 11, median 16, upper quartile 25 and maximum 33. Work out the interquartile range.
  18. 18th August 2001A meal deal has 6 mains, 5 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  19. 19th August 2001Make x the subject of y = 6x^2 - 9.
  20. 20th August 2001A coach travels 20 km in 1 hour, then 70 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  21. 21st August 2001A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 18 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
  22. 22nd August 2001A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  23. 23rd August 2001A scatter graph plots a house's floor area and its asking price. What type of correlation would you expect?
  24. 24th August 2001A bill is £576 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  25. 25th August 2001The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 26)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  26. 26th August 2001Freya drives 90 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  27. 27th August 2001Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 104°, 65° and 58°. Work out the fourth.
  28. 28th August 2001A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  29. 29th August 2001Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 15 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 21, 7, 11, 3, 16. Write down the modal class.
  30. 30th August 2001Work out (18 x 10^9) / (3 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  31. 31st August 2001Expand and simplify 4(5x - 8).

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