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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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October 2003

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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Every sheet in October 2003

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  1. 1st October 2003A meal deal has 9 mains, 5 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  2. 2nd October 2003Factorise x^2 - 6x + 8.
  3. 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?
  4. 4th October 2003Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
  5. 5th October 2003A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  6. 6th October 2003A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 76 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
  7. 7th October 2003A bill is £264 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  8. 8th October 2003Does the point (4, 0) satisfy y > -x + 5?
  9. 9th October 2003A pack of 5 pencils costs £2.75. A pack of 15 costs £7.50. Which pack is better value?
  10. 10th October 2003The bearing of B from A is 188°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  11. 11th October 2003A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  12. 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?
  13. 13th October 2003Work out (42 x 10^8) / (7 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  14. 14th October 2003A line has gradient 2 and passes through (4, 9). Work out its equation.
  15. 15th October 2003Work out 40% of 40.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 18th October 2003A box plot has minimum 8, lower quartile 11, median 16, upper quartile 22 and maximum 26. Work out the interquartile range.
  19. 19th October 2003A meal deal has 9 mains, 3 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  20. 20th October 2003Make x the subject of y = 4x^2 - 6.
  21. 21st October 2003Write the ratio 3 : 21 in the form 1 : n.
  22. 22nd October 2003A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 16 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
  23. 23rd October 2003A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  24. 24th October 2003A scatter graph plots the length of a queue and the number of tills open. What type of correlation would you expect?
  25. 25th October 2003A bill is £528 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  26. 26th October 2003The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 48)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  27. 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.
  28. 28th October 2003Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 130°, 85° and 110°. Work out the fourth.
  29. 29th October 2003A bag holds 3 red and 8 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  30. 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.
  31. 31st October 2003Work out (72 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.

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