Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 2006 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in May 2006, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' May 2006 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in May 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2006Make x the subject of y = 6x^2 - 9.
- 2nd May 2006Write the ratio 8 : 16 in the form 1 : n.
- 3rd May 2006The bearing of B from A is 123°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 4th May 2006A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 5th May 2006A scatter graph plots how far a lorry has driven and the fuel left in its tank. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 6th May 2006Work out (54 x 10^6) / (6 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 7th May 2006The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 75)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 8th May 2006A coach travels 90 km in 0.5 hours, then 70 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 9th May 2006A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 10th May 2006A bag holds 2 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 11th May 2006Grouped 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.
- 12th May 2006A meal deal has 4 mains, 3 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 13th May 2006Expand and simplify 3(8x + 8).
- 14th May 2006Rhys drives 75 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 15th May 2006A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 18 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 16th May 2006A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 17th May 2006Of 58 students, 25 study French, 22 study German and 5 study both. How many study neither?
- 18th May 2006A bill is £672 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 19th May 2006A line has equation y = 6x - 18. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 20th May 2006Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 3 : 8. There are 24 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 21st May 2006Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 58°, 100° and 139°. Work out the fourth.
- 22nd May 2006A bag holds 5 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 23rd May 2006In a survey 2 households own 1 car, 5 own 2 cars and 4 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 24th May 2006Work out (24 x 10^10) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 25th May 2006Solve 4(x + 7) = 40.
- 26th May 2006A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 9 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 27th May 2006A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 16 cm and height 11 cm. The prism is 20 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 28th May 2006A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 29th May 2006A box plot has a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 60. Work out the range.
- 30th May 2006A meal deal has 8 mains, 8 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 31st May 2006Use v = u + at with u = 8, a = 3 and t = 5. Work out v.