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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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September 2008

30 sheets · 150 questions · Grades 4-6

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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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 3rd September 2008A box plot has minimum 1, lower quartile 11, median 19, upper quartile 27 and maximum 35. Work out the interquartile range.
  4. 4th September 2008A meal deal has 3 mains, 6 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  5. 5th September 2008Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 2.
  6. 6th September 2008Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 8. There are 20 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
  7. 7th September 2008Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
  8. 8th September 2008A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  9. 9th September 2008A scatter graph plots the number of hours revised and the test mark. What type of correlation would you expect?
  10. 10th September 2008A bill is £456 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  11. 11th September 2008The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 90)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  12. 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?
  13. 13th September 2008The bearing of B from A is 122°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  14. 14th September 2008A bag holds 7 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  15. 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.
  16. 16th September 2008Work out (32 x 10^10) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  17. 17th September 2008Expand and simplify 4(7x + 5).
  18. 18th September 2008A pack of 11 batteries costs £4.95. A pack of 33 costs £14.52. Which pack is better value?
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 21st September 2008Of 63 students, 18 study French, 30 study German and 5 study both. How many study neither?
  22. 22nd September 2008A meal deal has 8 mains, 8 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  23. 23rd September 2008A line has equation y = 5x - 10. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  24. 24th September 2008Work out 5% of 140.
  25. 25th September 2008A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 15 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
  26. 26th September 2008A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  27. 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.
  28. 28th September 2008A bill is £384 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  29. 29th September 2008Solve 6(x - 3) = 12.
  30. 30th September 2008Write the ratio 3 : 24 in the form 1 : n.

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