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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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December 2005

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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Every sheet in December 2005

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  1. 1st December 2005A meal deal has 6 mains, 7 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  2. 2nd December 2005Factorise x^2 + 2x - 15.
  3. 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?
  4. 4th December 2005Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
  5. 5th December 2005A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  6. 6th December 2005A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 88 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
  7. 7th December 2005A bill is £528 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  8. 8th December 2005Does the point (1, 3) satisfy y > -2x + 4?
  9. 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?
  10. 10th December 2005The bearing of B from A is 329°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  11. 11th December 2005A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  12. 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?
  13. 13th December 2005Work out (16 x 10^11) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  14. 14th December 2005A line has gradient -4 and passes through (4, -13). Work out its equation.
  15. 15th December 2005A pack of 8 teabags costs £3.20. A pack of 16 costs £5.44. Which pack is better value?
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 18th December 2005A box plot has minimum 15, lower quartile 18, median 22, upper quartile 26 and maximum 29. Work out the interquartile range.
  19. 19th December 2005A meal deal has 6 mains, 8 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  20. 20th December 2005Make x the subject of y = 7x^2 - 12.
  21. 21st December 2005Work out 10% of 220.
  22. 22nd December 2005A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 13 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
  23. 23rd December 2005A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  24. 24th December 2005A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of hot drinks sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
  25. 25th December 2005A bill is £144 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  26. 26th December 2005The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 20)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  27. 27th December 2005Write the ratio 2 : 6 in the form 1 : n.
  28. 28th December 2005Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 81°, 121° and 98°. Work out the fourth.
  29. 29th December 2005A bag holds 6 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  30. 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.
  31. 31st December 2005Work out (15 x 10^10) / (5 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.

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