Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
December 2005 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in December 2005, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in December 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2005A meal deal has 6 mains, 7 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 2nd December 2005Factorise x^2 + 2x - 15.
- 3rd December 2005Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 5 : 8. There are 15 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 4th December 2005Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
- 5th December 2005A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 6th December 2005A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 88 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 7th December 2005A bill is £528 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 8th December 2005Does the point (1, 3) satisfy y > -2x + 4?
- 9th December 2005A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 2.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 10th December 2005The bearing of B from A is 329°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 11th December 2005A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th December 2005130 people were surveyed. 50 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 13th December 2005Work out (16 x 10^11) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 14th December 2005A line has gradient -4 and passes through (4, -13). Work out its equation.
- 15th December 2005A pack of 8 teabags costs £3.20. A pack of 16 costs £5.44. Which pack is better value?
- 16th December 2005A 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 December 2005A bag holds 2 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th December 2005A box plot has minimum 15, lower quartile 18, median 22, upper quartile 26 and maximum 29. Work out the interquartile range.
- 19th December 2005A meal deal has 6 mains, 8 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 20th December 2005Make x the subject of y = 7x^2 - 12.
- 21st December 2005Work out 10% of 220.
- 22nd December 2005A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 13 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 23rd December 2005A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 24th December 2005A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of hot drinks sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 25th December 2005A bill is £144 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 26th December 2005The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 20)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 27th December 2005Write the ratio 2 : 6 in the form 1 : n.
- 28th December 2005Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 81°, 121° and 98°. Work out the fourth.
- 29th December 2005A bag holds 6 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th December 2005Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 20 < x <= 30. The frequencies in order are 3, 21, 16, 11, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 31st December 2005Work out (15 x 10^10) / (5 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.