Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
August 2010 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 2010, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in August 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2010Work out (49 x 10^9) / (7 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 2nd August 20105 teas and 4 cakes cost £17.10. 2 teas and 2 cakes cost £7.60. Find the price of a tea.
- 3rd August 2010Write the ratio 6 : 18 in the form 1 : n.
- 4th August 2010A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 5th August 2010A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 6th August 2010Four classes in order have frequencies 7, 10, 8, 10. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 7th August 2010A meal deal has 5 mains, 8 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 8th August 2010For the curve y = 8/x, work out y when x = -2, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 9th August 2010A coach travels 50 km in 0.5 hours, then 50 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 10th August 2010A trapezium has parallel sides of 5 cm and 15 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 11th August 2010A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 12th August 201055 newts are marked and released. Later 35 are caught, of which 7 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 13th August 2010A bill is £768 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 14th August 2010Factorise x^2 + 6x + 8.
- 15th August 2010Mia drives 135 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 16th August 2010Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 121°, 108° and 68°. Work out the fourth.
- 17th August 2010A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th August 2010A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 196 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 19th August 2010Work out (54 x 10^7) / (9 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 20th August 2010Does the point (5, 6) satisfy y > 3x - 6?
- 21st August 2010Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 3 : 5. There are 15 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 22nd August 2010A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 18 cm and height 8 cm. The prism is 10 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 23rd August 2010A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 24th August 2010100 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 20 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 25th August 2010A meal deal has 9 mains, 3 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 26th August 2010A line has gradient -5 and passes through (6, -27). Work out its equation.
- 27th August 2010A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 2.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 28th August 2010Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 29th August 2010A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 30th August 2010A box plot has minimum 10, lower quartile 19, median 25, upper quartile 27 and maximum 37. Work out the interquartile range.
- 31st August 2010A bill is £936 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.