Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
March 2009 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in March 2009, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in March 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2009A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 2nd March 200955 newts are marked and released. Later 44 are caught, of which 4 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 3rd March 2009A meal deal has 9 mains, 6 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 4th March 2009Factorise x^2 + 3x + 2.
- 5th March 2009A pack of 12 teabags costs £4.20. A pack of 48 costs £14.88. Which pack is better value?
- 6th March 2009Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 7th March 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 8th March 2009A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 44 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 9th March 2009A bill is £816 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 10th March 2009Does the point (4, -4) satisfy y > -2x - 3?
- 11th March 2009Work out 5% of 400.
- 12th March 2009The bearing of B from A is 189°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 13th March 2009A bag holds 4 red and 8 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 14th March 2009120 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 15th March 2009Work out (54 x 10^8) / (9 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 16th March 2009A line has gradient -2 and passes through (3, -9). Work out its equation.
- 17th March 2009Write the ratio 3 : 27 in the form 1 : n.
- 18th March 2009A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 19th March 2009A bag holds 2 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 20th March 2009A box plot has minimum 5, lower quartile 8, median 11, upper quartile 17 and maximum 26. Work out the interquartile range.
- 21st March 2009A meal deal has 5 mains, 9 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 22nd March 2009Make x the subject of y = 4x^2 - 2.
- 23rd March 2009A coach travels 50 km in 0.5 hours, then 20 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 24th March 2009A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 9 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 25th March 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 26th March 2009A scatter graph plots a runner's time for 100 m and the distance they can throw a ball. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 27th March 2009A bill is £96 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 28th March 2009The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 3x° and (x + 78)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 29th March 2009Leo drives 150 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 30th March 2009Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 104°, 81° and 145°. Work out the fourth.
- 31st March 2009A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.