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April 2010 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day

Every Foundation Plus sheet published in April 2010, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.

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April 2010

30 sheets · 150 questions · Grades 4-6

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Every sheet in April 2010

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

  1. 1st April 2010A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  2. 2nd April 201010 newts are marked and released. Later 25 are caught, of which 5 are marked. Estimate the population.
  3. 3rd April 2010A meal deal has 3 mains, 9 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  4. 4th April 2010Factorise x^2 + 18x + 81.
  5. 5th April 2010A coach travels 80 km in 0.5 hours, then 30 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  6. 6th April 2010Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
  7. 7th April 2010A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  8. 8th April 2010A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 120 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
  9. 9th April 2010A bill is £864 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  10. 10th April 2010Does the point (5, 4) satisfy y > 2x - 5?
  11. 11th April 2010Noah drives 200 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  12. 12th April 2010The bearing of B from A is 294°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  13. 13th April 2010A bag holds 4 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  14. 14th April 2010230 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 35 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  15. 15th April 2010Work out (21 x 10^10) / (3 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
  16. 16th April 2010A line has gradient -4 and passes through (2, -13). Work out its equation.
  17. 17th April 2010Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 4 : 5. There are 52 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
  18. 18th April 2010A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  19. 19th April 2010A bag holds 8 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  20. 20th April 2010A box plot has minimum 10, lower quartile 17, median 24, upper quartile 28 and maximum 30. Work out the interquartile range.
  21. 21st April 2010A meal deal has 7 mains, 5 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  22. 22nd April 2010Make x the subject of y = 4x^2 - 12.
  23. 23rd April 2010A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 2 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
  24. 24th April 2010A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 19 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
  25. 25th April 2010A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  26. 26th April 2010A scatter graph plots a house's floor area and its asking price. What type of correlation would you expect?
  27. 27th April 2010A bill is £144 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  28. 28th April 2010The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 105)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  29. 29th April 2010A pack of 10 batteries costs £4.00. A pack of 40 costs £15.20. Which pack is better value?
  30. 30th April 2010Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 123°, 85° and 89°. Work out the fourth.

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