Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
October 2003 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in October 2003, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in October 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2003A meal deal has 9 mains, 5 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 2nd October 2003Factorise x^2 - 6x + 8.
- 3rd October 2003A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 6 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 4th October 2003Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 5th October 2003A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 6th October 2003A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 76 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 7th October 2003A bill is £264 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 8th October 2003Does the point (4, 0) satisfy y > -x + 5?
- 9th October 2003A pack of 5 pencils costs £2.75. A pack of 15 costs £7.50. Which pack is better value?
- 10th October 2003The bearing of B from A is 188°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 11th October 2003A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th October 200380 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 35 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 13th October 2003Work out (42 x 10^8) / (7 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 14th October 2003A line has gradient 2 and passes through (4, 9). Work out its equation.
- 15th October 2003Work out 40% of 40.
- 16th October 2003A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 17th October 2003A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th October 2003A box plot has minimum 8, lower quartile 11, median 16, upper quartile 22 and maximum 26. Work out the interquartile range.
- 19th October 2003A meal deal has 9 mains, 3 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 20th October 2003Make x the subject of y = 4x^2 - 6.
- 21st October 2003Write the ratio 3 : 21 in the form 1 : n.
- 22nd October 2003A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 16 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 23rd October 2003A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 24th October 2003A scatter graph plots the length of a queue and the number of tills open. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 25th October 2003A bill is £528 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 26th October 2003The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 48)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 27th October 2003A coach travels 40 km in 1 hour, then 70 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 28th October 2003Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 130°, 85° and 110°. Work out the fourth.
- 29th October 2003A bag holds 3 red and 8 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th October 2003Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 0 < x <= 5. The frequencies in order are 21, 16, 7, 11, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 31st October 2003Work out (72 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.