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August 2005 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 2005, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in August 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2005A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 2nd August 2005230 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 70 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 3rd August 2005A bill is £744 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 4th August 2005A line has gradient -2 and passes through (3, -4). Work out its equation.
- 5th August 2005A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 10.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 6th August 2005Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 136°, 139° and 43°. Work out the fourth.
- 7th August 2005A bag holds 5 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 8th August 2005A box plot has minimum 15, lower quartile 19, median 24, upper quartile 32 and maximum 34. Work out the interquartile range.
- 9th August 2005Work out (30 x 10^11) / (5 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 10th August 2005Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 8.
- 11th August 2005A pack of 8 teabags costs £4.40. A pack of 16 costs £8.16. Which pack is better value?
- 12th August 2005A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 12 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 20 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 13th August 2005A bag holds 6 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 14th August 2005A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of ice creams sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 15th August 2005A meal deal has 9 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 16th August 2005The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 60)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 17th August 2005Work out 15% of 380.
- 18th August 2005Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 19th August 2005A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 20th August 2005Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 10 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 3, 21, 16, 11, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 21st August 2005A bill is £744 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 22nd August 2005Expand and simplify 3(7x + 9).
- 23rd August 2005Write the ratio 8 : 24 in the form 1 : n.
- 24th August 2005The bearing of B from A is 198°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 25th August 2005A bag holds 6 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 26th August 2005Of 62 students, 28 study French, 31 study German and 5 study both. How many study neither?
- 27th August 2005Work out (63 x 10^6) / (9 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 28th August 2005A line has equation y = 6x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 29th August 2005A coach travels 80 km in 0.5 hours, then 60 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 30th August 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.
- 31st August 2005A bag holds 3 red and 9 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.