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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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January 2011

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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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.

  1. 1st January 2011A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 15 cm, 10 cm apart. Work out its area.
  2. 2nd January 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  3. 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?
  4. 4th January 2011A bill is £96 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  5. 5th January 2011A line has gradient 3 and passes through (5, 17). Work out its equation.
  6. 6th January 2011A pack of 9 pencils costs £5.40. A pack of 27 costs £15.39. Which pack is better value?
  7. 7th January 2011Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 106°, 48° and 162°. Work out the fourth.
  8. 8th January 2011A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  9. 9th January 2011A box plot has minimum 13, lower quartile 16, median 24, upper quartile 29 and maximum 39. Work out the interquartile range.
  10. 10th January 2011Work out (40 x 10^12) / (8 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
  11. 11th January 2011Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 4.
  12. 12th January 2011Work out 30% of 60.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 15th January 2011A scatter graph plots a person's shoe size and their height. What type of correlation would you expect?
  16. 16th January 2011A meal deal has 8 mains, 6 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  17. 17th January 2011The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 30)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  18. 18th January 2011Write the ratio 5 : 10 in the form 1 : n.
  19. 19th January 2011Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
  20. 20th January 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  21. 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.
  22. 22nd January 2011A bill is £792 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  23. 23rd January 2011Expand and simplify 3(2x + 5).
  24. 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.
  25. 25th January 2011The bearing of B from A is 154°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  26. 26th January 2011A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  27. 27th January 2011Of 58 students, 23 study French, 32 study German and 4 study both. How many study neither?
  28. 28th January 2011Work out (8 x 10^11) / (4 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  29. 29th January 2011A line has equation y = 6x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  30. 30th January 2011Aisha drives 180 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  31. 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.

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