Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
October 2010 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in October 2010, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' October 2010 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in October 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2010Use v = u + at with u = 4, a = 6 and t = 7. Work out v.
- 2nd October 2010Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 4 : 5. There are 60 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 3rd October 2010Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 4th October 2010A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 5th October 2010A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 7x + 35. Use it to estimate y when x = 4.
- 6th October 2010A bill is £744 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 7th October 20103 teas and 3 cakes cost £7.80. 3 teas and 4 cakes cost £9.00. Find the price of a tea.
- 8th October 2010A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 15 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 9th October 2010The bearing of B from A is 257°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 10th October 2010A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 11th October 2010Four classes in order have frequencies 6, 10, 10, 11. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 12th October 2010Work out (28 x 10^10) / (7 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 13th October 2010For the curve y = -28/x, work out y when x = -4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 14th October 2010A pack of 7 sponges costs £2.80. A pack of 14 costs £5.46. Which pack is better value?
- 15th October 2010A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 6 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 16th October 2010A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 17th October 201040 fish are marked and released. Later 36 are caught, of which 3 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 18th October 2010A meal deal has 8 mains, 9 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 19th October 2010Factorise x^2 + 2x - 8.
- 20th October 2010Work out 20% of 220.
- 21st October 2010A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 15 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 22nd October 2010A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 23rd October 2010A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 112 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 24th October 2010A bill is £120 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 25th October 2010Does the point (1, 12) satisfy y > 4x + 3?
- 26th October 2010Write the ratio 3 : 18 in the form 1 : n.
- 27th October 2010Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 120°, 84° and 31°. Work out the fourth.
- 28th October 2010A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 29th October 2010160 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 35 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 30th October 2010Work out (21 x 10^12) / (7 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 31st October 2010A line has gradient -5 and passes through (6, -36). Work out its equation.