Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
September 2011 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in September 2011, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in September 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2011Work out (16 x 10^6) / (8 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 2nd September 20115 teas and 4 cakes cost £17.50. 2 teas and 2 cakes cost £7.80. Find the price of a tea.
- 3rd September 2011Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 9. There are 20 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 4th September 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.
- 5th September 2011A bag holds 6 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 6th September 2011Four classes in order have frequencies 12, 3, 5, 4. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 7th September 2011A meal deal has 8 mains, 3 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 8th September 2011For the curve y = 48/x, work out y when x = 4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 9th September 2011A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 10th September 2011A trapezium has parallel sides of 12 cm and 21 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 11th September 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 12th September 201120 voles are marked and released. Later 33 are caught, of which 3 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 13th September 2011A bill is £696 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 14th September 2011Factorise x^2 + 8x + 12.
- 15th September 2011A pack of 4 batteries costs £2.00. A pack of 12 costs £5.76. Which pack is better value?
- 16th September 2011Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 81°, 59° and 55°. Work out the fourth.
- 17th September 2011A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th September 2011A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 172 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 19th September 2011Work out (12 x 10^11) / (4 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 20th September 2011Does the point (1, -5) satisfy y > 2x - 4?
- 21st September 2011Work out 15% of 320.
- 22nd September 2011A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 24 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 14 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 23rd September 2011A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 24th September 2011220 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 30 said yes. 75 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 25th September 2011A meal deal has 7 mains, 4 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 26th September 2011A line has gradient -5 and passes through (1, -13). Work out its equation.
- 27th September 2011Write the ratio 4 : 12 in the form 1 : n.
- 28th September 2011Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 29th September 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 30th September 2011A box plot has minimum 5, lower quartile 12, median 16, upper quartile 18 and maximum 23. Work out the interquartile range.