Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 2011 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in January 2011, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in January 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2011A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 15 cm, 10 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 2nd January 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 3rd January 2011110 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 25 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 4th January 2011A bill is £96 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 5th January 2011A line has gradient 3 and passes through (5, 17). Work out its equation.
- 6th January 2011A pack of 9 pencils costs £5.40. A pack of 27 costs £15.39. Which pack is better value?
- 7th January 2011Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 106°, 48° and 162°. Work out the fourth.
- 8th January 2011A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 9th January 2011A box plot has minimum 13, lower quartile 16, median 24, upper quartile 29 and maximum 39. Work out the interquartile range.
- 10th January 2011Work out (40 x 10^12) / (8 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 11th January 2011Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 4.
- 12th January 2011Work out 30% of 60.
- 13th January 2011A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 16 cm and height 5 cm. The prism is 15 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 14th January 2011A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th January 2011A scatter graph plots a person's shoe size and their height. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 16th January 2011A meal deal has 8 mains, 6 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 17th January 2011The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 30)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 18th January 2011Write the ratio 5 : 10 in the form 1 : n.
- 19th January 2011Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 20th January 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 21st January 2011Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 5 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 16, 7, 21, 11, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 22nd January 2011A bill is £792 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 23rd January 2011Expand and simplify 3(2x + 5).
- 24th January 2011A coach travels 80 km in 1 hour, then 20 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 25th January 2011The bearing of B from A is 154°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 26th January 2011A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 27th January 2011Of 58 students, 23 study French, 32 study German and 4 study both. How many study neither?
- 28th January 2011Work out (8 x 10^11) / (4 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 29th January 2011A line has equation y = 6x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 30th January 2011Aisha drives 180 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 31st January 2011A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 3 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.