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August 2003 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 2003, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in August 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2003A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 120 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 2nd August 2003Work out (25 x 10^7) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 3rd August 2003Does the point (4, -4) satisfy y > -x - 3?
- 4th August 2003A coach travels 20 km in 1.5 hours, then 40 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 5th August 2003A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 3 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 6th August 2003A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th August 2003120 people were surveyed. 60 were adults, of whom 25 said yes. 25 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 8th August 2003A meal deal has 4 mains, 9 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 9th August 2003A line has gradient 4 and passes through (3, 20). Work out its equation.
- 10th August 2003Isla drives 90 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 11th August 2003A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 18 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 12th August 2003A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 13th August 2003A box plot has minimum 6, lower quartile 15, median 18, upper quartile 25 and maximum 30. Work out the interquartile range.
- 14th August 2003A bill is £360 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 15th August 2003Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 2.
- 16th August 2003Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 5 : 6. There are 30 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
- 17th August 2003Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 118°, 80° and 64°. Work out the fourth.
- 18th August 2003A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th August 2003A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of ice creams sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 20th August 2003Work out (18 x 10^12) / (3 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 21st August 2003The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 120)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 22nd August 2003A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 4 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 23rd August 2003A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 18 cm and height 6 cm. The prism is 15 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 24th August 2003A bag holds 4 red and 8 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th August 2003Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 20 < x <= 30. The frequencies in order are 7, 3, 21, 11, 16. Write down the modal class.
- 26th August 2003A meal deal has 4 mains, 9 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 27th August 2003Expand and simplify 8(8x - 8).
- 28th August 2003A pack of 7 pencils costs £1.05. A pack of 14 costs £1.96. Which pack is better value?
- 29th August 2003Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 30th August 2003A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st August 2003Of 60 students, 23 study French, 25 study German and 5 study both. How many study neither?