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March 2002 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day

Every Foundation Plus sheet published in March 2002, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.

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March 2002

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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Every sheet in March 2002

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  1. 1st March 2002A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 8 cm long. Work out its volume.
  2. 2nd March 2002A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  3. 3rd March 2002A box plot has minimum 1, lower quartile 11, median 17, upper quartile 27 and maximum 31. Work out the interquartile range.
  4. 4th March 2002A meal deal has 3 mains, 4 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  5. 5th March 2002Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 9.
  6. 6th March 2002Work out 30% of 340.
  7. 7th March 2002Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
  8. 8th March 2002A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  9. 9th March 2002A scatter graph plots a phone's age and its resale value. What type of correlation would you expect?
  10. 10th March 2002A bill is £384 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  11. 11th March 2002The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 60)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  12. 12th March 2002Write the ratio 8 : 40 in the form 1 : n.
  13. 13th March 2002The bearing of B from A is 135°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  14. 14th March 2002A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  15. 15th March 2002Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 30 < x <= 40. The frequencies in order are 16, 21, 7, 3, 11. Write down the modal class.
  16. 16th March 2002Work out (18 x 10^6) / (9 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  17. 17th March 2002Expand and simplify 8(6x + 1).
  18. 18th March 2002A coach travels 90 km in 1 hour, then 30 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  19. 19th March 2002A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 11 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  20. 20th March 2002A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  21. 21st March 2002Of 61 students, 32 study French, 29 study German and 6 study both. How many study neither?
  22. 22nd March 2002A meal deal has 6 mains, 9 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  23. 23rd March 2002A line has equation y = 6x - 24. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  24. 24th March 2002Leo drives 240 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  25. 25th March 2002A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 16 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
  26. 26th March 2002A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  27. 27th March 2002In a survey 9 households own 1 car, 7 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  28. 28th March 2002A bill is £240 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  29. 29th March 2002Solve 6(x - 2) = 48.
  30. 30th March 2002Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 2 : 5. There are 18 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
  31. 31st March 2002Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 88°, 103° and 111°. Work out the fourth.

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