Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 2009 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in January 2009, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in January 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2009A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 72 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 2nd January 2009Work out (10 x 10^7) / (2 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 3rd January 2009Does the point (3, 12) satisfy y > 3x - 2?
- 4th January 2009Maeve drives 320 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 5th January 2009A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 6th January 2009A bag holds 6 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th January 2009160 people were surveyed. 50 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 45 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 8th January 2009A meal deal has 7 mains, 7 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 9th January 2009A line has gradient 5 and passes through (4, 14). Work out its equation.
- 10th January 2009Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 2 : 5. There are 20 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 11th January 2009A trapezium has parallel sides of 12 cm and 22 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 12th January 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 13th January 2009A box plot has minimum 2, lower quartile 9, median 14, upper quartile 22 and maximum 29. Work out the interquartile range.
- 14th January 2009A bill is £792 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 15th January 2009Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 3.
- 16th January 2009A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 13 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 17th January 2009Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 80°, 121° and 68°. Work out the fourth.
- 18th January 2009A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th January 2009A scatter graph plots a phone's age and its resale value. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 20th January 2009Work out (81 x 10^6) / (9 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 21st January 2009The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 108)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 22nd January 2009A pack of 11 sponges costs £6.60. A pack of 44 costs £24.64. Which pack is better value?
- 23rd January 2009A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 24 cm and height 8 cm. The prism is 5 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 24th January 2009A bag holds 2 red and 8 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th January 2009Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 10 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 7, 16, 11, 21, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 26th January 2009A meal deal has 3 mains, 9 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 27th January 2009Expand and simplify 3(5x - 10).
- 28th January 2009Work out 40% of 120.
- 29th January 2009Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
- 30th January 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st January 2009Of 35 students, 23 study French, 17 study German and 7 study both. How many study neither?