Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
March 2011 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in March 2011, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in March 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2011Write the ratio 8 : 64 in the form 1 : n.
- 2nd March 2011The bearing of B from A is 264°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 3rd March 2011A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 4th March 2011A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 132 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 5th March 2011Work out (36 x 10^12) / (6 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 6th March 2011Does the point (-3, 6) satisfy y > -4x - 3?
- 7th March 2011A coach travels 60 km in 1 hour, then 60 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 8th March 2011A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 6 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 9th March 2011A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th March 2011140 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 11th March 2011A meal deal has 9 mains, 9 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 12th March 2011A line has gradient 5 and passes through (6, 28). Work out its equation.
- 13th March 2011Erin drives 150 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 14th March 2011A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 9 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 15th March 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 16th March 2011A box plot has minimum 2, lower quartile 10, median 15, upper quartile 21 and maximum 25. Work out the interquartile range.
- 17th March 2011A bill is £384 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 18th March 2011Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 5.
- 19th March 2011Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 2 : 3. There are 22 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 20th March 2011Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 107°, 59° and 65°. Work out the fourth.
- 21st March 2011A bag holds 3 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 22nd March 2011A scatter graph plots the age of a car and its value. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 23rd March 2011Work out (40 x 10^7) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 24th March 2011The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 114)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 25th March 2011A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 26th March 2011A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 10 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 27th March 2011A bag holds 2 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th March 2011Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 20 < x <= 25. The frequencies in order are 11, 3, 16, 21, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 29th March 2011A meal deal has 4 mains, 4 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 30th March 2011Expand and simplify 8(3x + 11).
- 31st March 2011A pack of 4 pencils costs £1.60. A pack of 8 costs £3.04. Which pack is better value?