Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
March 2010 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in March 2010, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' March 2010 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in March 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2010Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 2nd March 2010A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 3rd March 2010Of 77 students, 34 study French, 36 study German and 10 study both. How many study neither?
- 4th March 2010A bill is £624 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 5th March 2010A line has equation y = 4x - 24. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 6th March 2010Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 2 : 3. There are 18 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 7th March 2010The bearing of B from A is 298°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 8th March 2010A bag holds 3 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 9th March 2010In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 8 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 10th March 2010Work out (28 x 10^11) / (4 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 11th March 2010Solve 5(x - 5) = -10.
- 12th March 2010A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 8 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 13th March 2010A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 10 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 14th March 2010A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th March 2010A box plot has a minimum of 14 and a maximum of 47. Work out the range.
- 16th March 2010A meal deal has 4 mains, 9 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 17th March 2010Use v = u + at with u = 12, a = 2 and t = 2. Work out v.
- 18th March 2010A pack of 8 pencils costs £4.00. A pack of 24 costs £11.52. Which pack is better value?
- 19th March 2010A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 20 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 20th March 2010A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 21st March 2010A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 9x + 22. Use it to estimate y when x = 3.
- 22nd March 2010A bill is £792 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 23rd March 20102 teas and 1 cake cost £7.30. 2 teas and 5 cakes cost £16.50. Find the price of a tea.
- 24th March 2010Work out 5% of 400.
- 25th March 2010Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 125°, 124° and 53°. Work out the fourth.
- 26th March 2010A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 27th March 2010Four classes in order have frequencies 11, 3, 12, 8. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 28th March 2010Work out (6 x 10^11) / (3 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 29th March 2010For the curve y = 18/x, work out y when x = 2, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 30th March 2010Write the ratio 3 : 24 in the form 1 : n.
- 31st March 2010A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 5 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.