Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 2008 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in May 2008, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' May 2008 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in May 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2008A meal deal has 3 mains, 8 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 2nd May 2008The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 3rd May 2008Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 4 : 7. There are 32 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
- 4th May 2008A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 16 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 5th May 2008A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 6th May 2008Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 40 < x <= 50. The frequencies in order are 11, 21, 3, 16, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 7th May 2008A bill is £528 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 8th May 2008Expand and simplify 8(8x + 11).
- 9th May 2008A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 6 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 10th May 2008Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 134°, 72° and 119°. Work out the fourth.
- 11th May 2008A bag holds 10 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th May 2008Of 68 students, 33 study French, 44 study German and 14 study both. How many study neither?
- 13th May 2008Work out (14 x 10^12) / (2 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 14th May 2008A line has equation y = 5x - 10. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 15th May 2008A pack of 10 batteries costs £2.00. A pack of 20 costs £3.40. Which pack is better value?
- 16th May 2008A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 19 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 17th May 2008A bag holds 2 red and 9 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th May 2008In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 19th May 2008A meal deal has 4 mains, 7 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 20th May 2008Solve 5(x + 3) = 25.
- 21st May 2008Work out 75% of 140.
- 22nd May 2008Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 23rd May 2008A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 24th May 2008A box plot has a minimum of 19 and a maximum of 50. Work out the range.
- 25th May 2008A bill is £648 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 26th May 2008Use v = u + at with u = 11, a = 9 and t = 2. Work out v.
- 27th May 2008Write the ratio 8 : 56 in the form 1 : n.
- 28th May 2008The bearing of B from A is 065°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 29th May 2008A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th May 2008A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 8x + 39. Use it to estimate y when x = 8.
- 31st May 2008Work out (32 x 10^11) / (4 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.