Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
March 2012 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in March 2012, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' March 2012 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in March 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2012A pack of 4 pencils costs £1.80. A pack of 12 costs £5.16. Which pack is better value?
- 2nd March 2012A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 9 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 3rd March 2012A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 4th March 2012In a survey 7 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 5th March 2012A meal deal has 9 mains, 8 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 6th March 2012Solve 4(x - 7) = 8.
- 7th March 2012Work out 25% of 280.
- 8th March 2012A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 15 cm, 10 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 9th March 2012A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 10th March 2012A box plot has a minimum of 16 and a maximum of 31. Work out the range.
- 11th March 2012A bill is £768 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 12th March 2012Use v = u + at with u = 12, a = 5 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 13th March 2012Write the ratio 6 : 12 in the form 1 : n.
- 14th March 2012Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 91°, 79° and 55°. Work out the fourth.
- 15th March 2012A bag holds 4 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th March 2012A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 5x + 37. Use it to estimate y when x = 3.
- 17th March 2012Work out (15 x 10^6) / (3 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 18th March 20123 teas and 2 cakes cost £8.30. 2 teas and 4 cakes cost £10.20. Find the price of a tea.
- 19th March 2012A coach travels 70 km in 1 hour, then 20 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 20th March 2012A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 20 cm and height 5 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 21st March 2012A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 22nd March 2012Four classes in order have frequencies 3, 11, 4, 11. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 23rd March 2012A meal deal has 6 mains, 3 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 24th March 2012For the curve y = -4/x, work out y when x = 4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 25th March 2012Rhys drives 200 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 26th March 2012Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 27th March 2012A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 28th March 201225 newts are marked and released. Later 77 are caught, of which 7 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 29th March 2012A bill is £96 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 30th March 2012Factorise x^2 + 13x + 36.
- 31st March 2012Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 5 : 7. There are 35 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?