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December 2011 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in December 2011, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' December 2011 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in December 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2011A line has gradient 2 and passes through (6, 16). Work out its equation.
- 2nd December 2011A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 14 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 3rd December 2011A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 24 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 17 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 4th December 2011A bag holds 3 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 5th December 2011A box plot has minimum 10, lower quartile 13, median 19, upper quartile 24 and maximum 33. Work out the interquartile range.
- 6th December 2011A meal deal has 9 mains, 9 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 7th December 2011Make x the subject of y = 3x^2 - 7.
- 8th December 2011A pack of 6 pencils costs £1.80. A pack of 12 costs £3.36. Which pack is better value?
- 9th December 2011Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 10th December 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 11th December 2011A scatter graph plots the day of the month and the temperature at noon. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 12th December 2011A bill is £240 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 13th December 2011The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 68)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 14th December 2011Work out 10% of 400.
- 15th December 2011The bearing of B from A is 111°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 16th December 2011A bag holds 10 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 17th December 2011Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 15 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 11, 21, 16, 3, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 18th December 2011Work out (20 x 10^9) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 19th December 2011Expand and simplify 7(6x + 1).
- 20th December 2011Write the ratio 5 : 10 in the form 1 : n.
- 21st December 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.
- 22nd December 2011A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 23rd December 2011Of 57 students, 29 study French, 15 study German and 3 study both. How many study neither?
- 24th December 2011A meal deal has 3 mains, 5 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 25th December 2011A line has equation y = 2x - 4. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 26th December 2011A coach travels 20 km in 0.5 hours, then 30 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 27th December 2011A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 22 cm, 10 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 28th December 2011A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 29th December 2011In a survey 9 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 30th December 2011A bill is £192 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 31st December 2011Solve 4(x - 5) = 4.