Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
October 2009 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in October 2009, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' October 2009 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in October 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2009A pack of 8 pencils costs £3.60. A pack of 16 costs £6.24. Which pack is better value?
- 2nd October 2009A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 14 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 18 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 3rd October 2009A bag holds 3 red and 9 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 4th October 2009A box plot has minimum 7, lower quartile 9, median 13, upper quartile 22 and maximum 31. Work out the interquartile range.
- 5th October 2009A meal deal has 3 mains, 7 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 6th October 2009Make x the subject of y = 4x^2 - 4.
- 7th October 2009Work out 30% of 220.
- 8th October 2009Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
- 9th October 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 10th October 2009A scatter graph plots the number of hours revised and the test mark. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 11th October 2009A bill is £888 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 12th October 2009The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 18)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 13th October 2009Write the ratio 8 : 16 in the form 1 : n.
- 14th October 2009The bearing of B from A is 149°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 15th October 2009A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th October 2009Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 5 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 16, 3, 11, 21, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 17th October 2009Work out (15 x 10^7) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 18th October 2009Expand and simplify 8(5x - 6).
- 19th October 2009A coach travels 30 km in 0.5 hours, then 60 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 20th October 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.
- 21st October 2009A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 22nd October 2009Of 47 students, 25 study French, 34 study German and 15 study both. How many study neither?
- 23rd October 2009A meal deal has 6 mains, 9 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 24th October 2009A line has equation y = 5x - 5. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 25th October 2009Nia drives 120 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 26th October 2009A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 12 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 27th October 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 28th October 2009In a survey 5 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 3 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 29th October 2009A bill is £624 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 30th October 2009Solve 4(x - 5) = -12.
- 31st October 2009Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 3 : 7. There are 30 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?