Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
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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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' December 2009 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
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.
- 1st December 2009A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 15 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 2nd December 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 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?
- 4th December 2009A bill is £816 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 5th December 2009A line has gradient 1 and passes through (2, -5). Work out its equation.
- 6th December 2009Yusuf drives 120 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 7th December 2009Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 116°, 56° and 54°. Work out the fourth.
- 8th December 2009A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 9th December 2009A box plot has minimum 1, lower quartile 11, median 21, upper quartile 28 and maximum 38. Work out the interquartile range.
- 10th December 2009Work out (24 x 10^8) / (6 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 11th December 2009Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 5.
- 12th December 2009Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 9. There are 45 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 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.
- 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.
- 15th December 2009A scatter graph plots the day of the month and the temperature at noon. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 16th December 2009A meal deal has 7 mains, 6 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 17th December 2009The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 64)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 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?
- 19th December 2009Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 20th December 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 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.
- 22nd December 2009A bill is £576 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 23rd December 2009Expand and simplify 2(7x - 7).
- 24th December 2009A pack of 9 teabags costs £1.80. A pack of 18 costs £3.24. Which pack is better value?
- 25th December 2009The bearing of B from A is 130°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 26th December 2009A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 27th December 2009Of 43 students, 29 study French, 18 study German and 10 study both. How many study neither?
- 28th December 2009Work out (16 x 10^7) / (4 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 29th December 2009A line has equation y = 2x - 4. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 30th December 2009Work out 15% of 60.
- 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.