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October 2005 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in October 2005, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in October 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2005A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 168 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 2nd October 2005Work out (25 x 10^7) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 3rd October 2005Does the point (2, 8) satisfy y > 2x + 6?
- 4th October 2005Write the ratio 8 : 56 in the form 1 : n.
- 5th October 2005A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 6th October 2005A bag holds 8 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th October 2005150 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 30 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 8th October 2005A meal deal has 5 mains, 5 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 9th October 2005A line has gradient -5 and passes through (5, -28). Work out its equation.
- 10th October 2005A coach travels 30 km in 1 hour, then 70 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 11th October 2005A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 12 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 12th October 2005A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 13th October 2005A box plot has minimum 7, lower quartile 9, median 14, upper quartile 19 and maximum 27. Work out the interquartile range.
- 14th October 2005A bill is £384 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 15th October 2005Make x the subject of y = 3x^2 - 4.
- 16th October 2005Jacob drives 75 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 17th October 2005Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 40°, 70° and 203°. Work out the fourth.
- 18th October 2005A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th October 2005A scatter graph plots a house's floor area and its asking price. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 20th October 2005Work out (45 x 10^6) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 21st October 2005The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 55)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 22nd October 2005Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 2 : 7. There are 24 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
- 23rd October 2005A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 6 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 8 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 24th October 2005A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th October 2005Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 0 < x <= 5. The frequencies in order are 16, 11, 3, 21, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 26th October 2005A meal deal has 7 mains, 5 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 27th October 2005Expand and simplify 7(4x + 7).
- 28th October 2005A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 3 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 29th October 2005Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
- 30th October 2005A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st October 2005Of 68 students, 33 study French, 27 study German and 8 study both. How many study neither?