Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
March 2005 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in March 2005, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in March 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 20055 teas and 2 cakes cost £9.40. 2 teas and 3 cakes cost £9.70. Find the price of a tea.
- 2nd March 2005Work out 10% of 140.
- 3rd March 2005A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 11 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 4th March 2005A bag holds 3 red and 9 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 5th March 2005Four classes in order have frequencies 8, 12, 4, 10. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 6th March 2005A meal deal has 3 mains, 9 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 7th March 2005For the curve y = 50/x, work out y when x = -5, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 8th March 2005Write the ratio 8 : 16 in the form 1 : n.
- 9th March 2005A trapezium has parallel sides of 9 cm and 16 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 10th March 2005A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 11th March 200515 newts are marked and released. Later 32 are caught, of which 4 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 12th March 2005A bill is £480 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 13th March 2005Factorise x^2 - 6x + 8.
- 14th March 2005A coach travels 70 km in 1.5 hours, then 80 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 15th March 2005Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 89°, 109° and 84°. Work out the fourth.
- 16th March 2005A bag holds 8 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 17th March 2005A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 188 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 18th March 2005Work out (48 x 10^10) / (8 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 19th March 2005Does the point (5, 17) satisfy y > x + 6?
- 20th March 2005Hassan drives 200 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 21st March 2005A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 14 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 18 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 22nd March 2005A bag holds 2 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 23rd March 2005210 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 50 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 24th March 2005A meal deal has 6 mains, 6 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 25th March 2005A line has gradient 3 and passes through (5, 11). Work out its equation.
- 26th March 2005Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 3 : 8. There are 30 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 27th March 2005Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 28th March 2005A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 29th March 2005A box plot has minimum 15, lower quartile 21, median 27, upper quartile 33 and maximum 41. Work out the interquartile range.
- 30th March 2005A bill is £312 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 31st March 2005Make x the subject of y = 2x^2 - 8.