Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
December 2008 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in December 2008, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' December 2008 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in December 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2008A bag holds 6 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 2nd December 2008In a survey 5 households own 1 car, 2 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 3rd December 2008A meal deal has 8 mains, 5 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 4th December 2008Solve 4(x + 3) = 44.
- 5th December 2008A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 6 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 6th December 2008A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 7 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 7th December 2008A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 8th December 2008A box plot has a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 47. Work out the range.
- 9th December 2008A bill is £264 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 10th December 2008Use v = u + at with u = 10, a = 2 and t = 7. Work out v.
- 11th December 2008A pack of 4 batteries costs £1.80. A pack of 12 costs £5.16. Which pack is better value?
- 12th December 2008Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 86°, 73° and 40°. Work out the fourth.
- 13th December 2008A bag holds 8 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 14th December 2008A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 5x + 33. Use it to estimate y when x = 7.
- 15th December 2008Work out (21 x 10^10) / (3 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 16th December 20084 teas and 2 cakes cost £7.30. 2 teas and 5 cakes cost £10.25. Find the price of a tea.
- 17th December 2008Work out 25% of 360.
- 18th December 2008A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 10 cm and height 12 cm. The prism is 17 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 19th December 2008A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 20th December 2008Four classes in order have frequencies 5, 8, 4, 10. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 21st December 2008A meal deal has 3 mains, 3 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 22nd December 2008For the curve y = -28/x, work out y when x = 4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 23rd December 2008Write the ratio 3 : 9 in the form 1 : n.
- 24th December 2008Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 25th December 2008A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 26th December 200815 beetles are marked and released. Later 25 are caught, of which 5 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 27th December 2008A bill is £48 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 28th December 2008Factorise x^2 + 9x + 18.
- 29th December 2008A coach travels 60 km in 1 hour, then 30 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 30th December 2008The bearing of B from A is 343°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 31st December 2008A bag holds 8 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.