Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
August 2011 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 2011, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in August 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2011A scatter graph plots a car's engine size and the miles it does per gallon. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 2nd August 2011A meal deal has 8 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 3rd August 2011The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 47)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 4th August 2011A pack of 12 sponges costs £3.60. A pack of 36 costs £10.08. Which pack is better value?
- 5th August 2011A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 15 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 6th August 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 7th August 2011Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 20 < x <= 25. The frequencies in order are 16, 3, 21, 11, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 8th August 2011A bill is £312 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 9th August 2011Expand and simplify 6(2x + 7).
- 10th August 2011Work out 5% of 220.
- 11th August 2011Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 136°, 63° and 39°. Work out the fourth.
- 12th August 2011A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 13th August 2011Of 44 students, 18 study French, 26 study German and 3 study both. How many study neither?
- 14th August 2011Work out (27 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 15th August 2011A line has equation y = 2x - 4. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 16th August 2011Write the ratio 8 : 32 in the form 1 : n.
- 17th August 2011A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 6 cm and height 9 cm. The prism is 13 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 18th August 2011A bag holds 3 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th August 2011In a survey 2 households own 1 car, 3 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 20th August 2011A meal deal has 6 mains, 7 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 21st August 2011Solve 4(x - 6) = -12.
- 22nd August 2011A coach travels 50 km in 1.5 hours, then 80 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 23rd August 2011Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 24th August 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 25th August 2011A box plot has a minimum of 19 and a maximum of 65. Work out the range.
- 26th August 2011A bill is £168 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 27th August 2011Use v = u + at with u = 2, a = 2 and t = 2. Work out v.
- 28th August 2011Erin drives 160 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 29th August 2011The bearing of B from A is 201°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 30th August 2011A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 31st August 2011A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 9x + 14. Use it to estimate y when x = 9.