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