Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
March 2006 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in March 2006, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in March 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2006A meal deal has 3 mains, 7 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 2nd March 2006The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 72)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 3rd March 2006A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 14.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 4th March 2006A trapezium has parallel sides of 5 cm and 16 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 5th March 2006A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 6th March 2006Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 10 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 21, 11, 7, 3, 16. Write down the modal class.
- 7th March 2006A bill is £576 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 8th March 2006Expand and simplify 7(6x - 4).
- 9th March 2006A pack of 9 sponges costs £3.15. A pack of 27 costs £7.83. Which pack is better value?
- 10th March 2006Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 111°, 50° and 36°. Work out the fourth.
- 11th March 2006A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th March 2006Of 77 students, 30 study French, 39 study German and 9 study both. How many study neither?
- 13th March 2006Work out (16 x 10^9) / (4 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 14th March 2006A line has equation y = 5x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 15th March 2006Work out 20% of 100.
- 16th March 2006A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 4 cm and height 13 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 17th March 2006A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th March 2006In a survey 8 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 19th March 2006A meal deal has 4 mains, 6 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 20th March 2006Solve 7(x - 2) = 7.
- 21st March 2006Write the ratio 4 : 20 in the form 1 : n.
- 22nd March 2006Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 23rd March 2006A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 24th March 2006A box plot has a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 41. Work out the range.
- 25th March 2006A bill is £48 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 26th March 2006Use v = u + at with u = 12, a = 3 and t = 3. Work out v.
- 27th March 2006A coach travels 30 km in 0.5 hours, then 60 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 28th March 2006The bearing of B from A is 101°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 29th March 2006A bag holds 4 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th March 2006A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 7x + 33. Use it to estimate y when x = 4.
- 31st March 2006Work out (18 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.