Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
September 2012 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in September 2012, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in September 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2012A meal deal has 6 mains, 7 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 2nd September 2012The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 3x° and (x + 48)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 3rd September 2012A coach travels 40 km in 1 hour, then 50 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 4th September 2012A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 18 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 5th September 2012A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 6th September 2012Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 20 < x <= 30. The frequencies in order are 21, 7, 3, 16, 11. Write down the modal class.
- 7th September 2012A bill is £216 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 8th September 2012Expand and simplify 6(3x - 9).
- 9th September 2012Ellis drives 120 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 10th September 2012Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 102°, 87° and 127°. Work out the fourth.
- 11th September 2012A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th September 2012Of 56 students, 27 study French, 22 study German and 8 study both. How many study neither?
- 13th September 2012Work out (54 x 10^10) / (6 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 14th September 2012A line has equation y = 2x - 8. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 15th September 2012Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 3 : 4. There are 36 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 16th September 2012A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 19 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 17th September 2012A bag holds 3 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th September 2012In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 8 own 2 cars and 3 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 19th September 2012A meal deal has 8 mains, 7 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 20th September 2012Solve 3(x + 5) = 51.
- 21st September 2012A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 14 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 22nd September 2012Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 23rd September 2012A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 24th September 2012A box plot has a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 28. Work out the range.
- 25th September 2012A bill is £960 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 26th September 2012Use v = u + at with u = 9, a = 7 and t = 3. Work out v.
- 27th September 2012A pack of 6 pencils costs 90p. A pack of 24 costs £2.88. Which pack is better value?
- 28th September 2012The bearing of B from A is 326°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 29th September 2012A bag holds 9 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th September 2012A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 9x + 11. Use it to estimate y when x = 7.