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August 2008 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 2008, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in August 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2008A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 8.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 2nd August 2008Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
- 3rd August 2008A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 4th August 2008A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 2x + 35. Use it to estimate y when x = 11.
- 5th August 2008A bill is £336 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 6th August 20083 teas and 2 cakes cost £10.60. 2 teas and 3 cakes cost £10.15. Find the price of a tea.
- 7th August 2008A pack of 10 batteries costs £5.50. A pack of 20 costs £10.00. Which pack is better value?
- 8th August 2008The bearing of B from A is 111°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 9th August 2008A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th August 2008Four classes in order have frequencies 5, 4, 11, 11. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 11th August 2008Work out (28 x 10^7) / (4 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 12th August 2008For the curve y = -35/x, work out y when x = 5, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 13th August 2008Work out 60% of 380.
- 14th August 2008A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 15th August 2008A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th August 200855 fish are marked and released. Later 36 are caught, of which 9 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 17th August 2008A meal deal has 8 mains, 3 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 18th August 2008Factorise x^2 - 7x + 10.
- 19th August 2008Write the ratio 8 : 32 in the form 1 : n.
- 20th August 2008A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 16 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 21st August 2008A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 22nd August 2008A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 148 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 23rd August 2008A bill is £768 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 24th August 2008Does the point (-1, 11) satisfy y > -x + 3?
- 25th August 2008A coach travels 50 km in 1 hour, then 90 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 26th August 2008Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 50°, 85° and 76°. Work out the fourth.
- 27th August 2008A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th August 2008210 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 29th August 2008Work out (28 x 10^11) / (7 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 30th August 2008A line has gradient -5 and passes through (1, 0). Work out its equation.
- 31st August 2008Rohan drives 175 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.