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December 2009 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day

Every Foundation Plus sheet published in December 2009, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.

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December 2009

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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Every sheet in December 2009

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st December 2009A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 15 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.
  2. 2nd December 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  3. 3rd December 2009170 people were surveyed. 80 were adults, of whom 40 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  4. 4th December 2009A bill is £816 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  5. 5th December 2009A line has gradient 1 and passes through (2, -5). Work out its equation.
  6. 6th December 2009Yusuf drives 120 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  7. 7th December 2009Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 116°, 56° and 54°. Work out the fourth.
  8. 8th December 2009A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  9. 9th December 2009A box plot has minimum 1, lower quartile 11, median 21, upper quartile 28 and maximum 38. Work out the interquartile range.
  10. 10th December 2009Work out (24 x 10^8) / (6 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  11. 11th December 2009Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 5.
  12. 12th December 2009Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 9. There are 45 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
  13. 13th December 2009A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 11 cm. The prism is 11 cm long. Work out its volume.
  14. 14th December 2009A bag holds 3 red and 9 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  15. 15th December 2009A scatter graph plots the day of the month and the temperature at noon. What type of correlation would you expect?
  16. 16th December 2009A meal deal has 7 mains, 6 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  17. 17th December 2009The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 64)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  18. 18th December 2009A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 4.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
  19. 19th December 2009Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
  20. 20th December 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  21. 21st December 2009Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 0 < x <= 5. The frequencies in order are 16, 21, 7, 3, 11. Write down the modal class.
  22. 22nd December 2009A bill is £576 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  23. 23rd December 2009Expand and simplify 2(7x - 7).
  24. 24th December 2009A pack of 9 teabags costs £1.80. A pack of 18 costs £3.24. Which pack is better value?
  25. 25th December 2009The bearing of B from A is 130°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  26. 26th December 2009A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  27. 27th December 2009Of 43 students, 29 study French, 18 study German and 10 study both. How many study neither?
  28. 28th December 2009Work out (16 x 10^7) / (4 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  29. 29th December 2009A line has equation y = 2x - 4. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  30. 30th December 2009Work out 15% of 60.
  31. 31st December 2009A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 9 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.

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