Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
September 2008 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in September 2008, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in September 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2008A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 6 cm and height 5 cm. The prism is 18 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 2nd September 2008A bag holds 4 red and 8 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 3rd September 2008A box plot has minimum 1, lower quartile 11, median 19, upper quartile 27 and maximum 35. Work out the interquartile range.
- 4th September 2008A meal deal has 3 mains, 6 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 5th September 2008Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 2.
- 6th September 2008Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 8. There are 20 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 7th September 2008Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
- 8th September 2008A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 9th September 2008A scatter graph plots the number of hours revised and the test mark. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 10th September 2008A bill is £456 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 11th September 2008The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 90)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 12th September 2008A 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?
- 13th September 2008The bearing of B from A is 122°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 14th September 2008A bag holds 7 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th September 2008Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 10 < x <= 15. The frequencies in order are 21, 16, 11, 7, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 16th September 2008Work out (32 x 10^10) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 17th September 2008Expand and simplify 4(7x + 5).
- 18th September 2008A pack of 11 batteries costs £4.95. A pack of 33 costs £14.52. Which pack is better value?
- 19th September 2008A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 20th September 2008A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 21st September 2008Of 63 students, 18 study French, 30 study German and 5 study both. How many study neither?
- 22nd September 2008A meal deal has 8 mains, 8 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 23rd September 2008A line has equation y = 5x - 10. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 24th September 2008Work out 5% of 140.
- 25th September 2008A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 15 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 26th September 2008A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 27th September 2008In a survey 8 households own 1 car, 8 own 2 cars and 8 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 28th September 2008A bill is £384 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 29th September 2008Solve 6(x - 3) = 12.
- 30th September 2008Write the ratio 3 : 24 in the form 1 : n.