Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
October 2012 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in October 2012, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in October 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2012Work out (9 x 10^8) / (3 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 2nd October 20122 teas and 2 cakes cost £6.10. 1 tea and 4 cakes cost £6.80. Find the price of a tea.
- 3rd October 2012Work out 10% of 200.
- 4th October 2012A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 5th October 2012A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 6th October 2012Four classes in order have frequencies 8, 8, 8, 3. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 7th October 2012A meal deal has 4 mains, 4 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 8th October 2012For the curve y = 120/x, work out y when x = 10, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 9th October 2012Write the ratio 6 : 42 in the form 1 : n.
- 10th October 2012A trapezium has parallel sides of 14 cm and 18 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 11th October 2012A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 12th October 201250 voles are marked and released. Later 12 are caught, of which 4 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 13th October 2012A bill is £600 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 14th October 2012Factorise x^2 + 6x - 27.
- 15th October 2012A coach travels 30 km in 0.5 hours, then 90 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 16th October 2012Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 87°, 45° and 183°. Work out the fourth.
- 17th October 2012A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th October 2012A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 164 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 19th October 2012Work out (81 x 10^8) / (9 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 20th October 2012Does the point (-1, -11) satisfy y > x - 5?
- 21st October 2012Zara drives 90 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 22nd October 2012A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 12 cm and height 6 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 23rd October 2012A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 24th October 2012190 people were surveyed. 80 were adults, of whom 35 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 25th October 2012A meal deal has 8 mains, 7 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 26th October 2012A line has gradient -3 and passes through (6, -22). Work out its equation.
- 27th October 2012Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 3 : 5. There are 39 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 28th October 2012Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 29th October 2012A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 30th October 2012A box plot has minimum 4, lower quartile 9, median 11, upper quartile 18 and maximum 23. Work out the interquartile range.
- 31st October 2012A bill is £144 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.