Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
October 2011 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in October 2011, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' October 2011 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in October 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2011A bill is £912 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 2nd October 2011Make x the subject of y = 6x^2 - 8.
- 3rd October 2011A coach travels 70 km in 0.5 hours, then 80 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 4th October 2011The bearing of B from A is 085°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 5th October 2011A bag holds 8 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 6th October 2011A scatter graph plots a house's floor area and its asking price. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 7th October 2011Work out (40 x 10^9) / (5 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 8th October 2011The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 64)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 9th October 2011Sanjay drives 240 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 10th October 2011A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 11th October 2011A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th October 2011Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 0 < x <= 5. The frequencies in order are 11, 3, 21, 16, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 13th October 2011A meal deal has 8 mains, 3 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 14th October 2011Expand and simplify 2(5x + 11).
- 15th October 2011Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 5 : 7. There are 45 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
- 16th October 2011A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 11 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 17th October 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 18th October 2011Of 29 students, 20 study French, 15 study German and 10 study both. How many study neither?
- 19th October 2011A bill is £792 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 20th October 2011A line has equation y = 5x - 20. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 21st October 2011A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 11 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 22nd October 2011Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 126°, 135° and 41°. Work out the fourth.
- 23rd October 2011A bag holds 10 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 24th October 2011In a survey 4 households own 1 car, 3 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 25th October 2011Work out (28 x 10^12) / (7 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 26th October 2011Solve 7(x - 4) = -7.
- 27th October 2011A pack of 10 pencils costs £4.50. A pack of 30 costs £12.00. Which pack is better value?
- 28th October 2011A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 24 cm and height 11 cm. The prism is 12 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 29th October 2011A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th October 2011A box plot has a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 39. Work out the range.
- 31st October 2011A meal deal has 4 mains, 8 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?