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October 2013 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in October 2013, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in October 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2013A scatter graph plots a phone's age and its resale value. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 2nd October 2013A meal deal has 8 mains, 4 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 3rd October 2013The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 89)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 4th October 2013A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 10.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 5th October 2013A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 11 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 6th October 2013A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 7th October 2013Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 30 < x <= 40. The frequencies in order are 16, 21, 11, 3, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 8th October 2013A bill is £576 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 9th October 2013Expand and simplify 3(5x + 7).
- 10th October 2013A pack of 12 teabags costs £6.00. A pack of 48 costs £22.56. Which pack is better value?
- 11th October 2013Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 62°, 102° and 37°. Work out the fourth.
- 12th October 2013A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 13th October 2013Of 51 students, 21 study French, 27 study German and 15 study both. How many study neither?
- 14th October 2013Work out (35 x 10^8) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 15th October 2013A line has equation y = 3x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 16th October 2013Work out 75% of 60.
- 17th October 2013A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 8 cm and height 7 cm. The prism is 10 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 18th October 2013A bag holds 2 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th October 2013In a survey 9 households own 1 car, 5 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 20th October 2013A meal deal has 3 mains, 4 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 21st October 2013Solve 6(x - 7) = -6.
- 22nd October 2013Write the ratio 4 : 12 in the form 1 : n.
- 23rd October 2013Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 24th October 2013A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 25th October 2013A box plot has a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 68. Work out the range.
- 26th October 2013A bill is £600 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 27th October 2013Use v = u + at with u = 9, a = 3 and t = 3. Work out v.
- 28th October 2013A coach travels 90 km in 0.5 hours, then 70 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 29th October 2013The bearing of B from A is 053°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 30th October 2013A bag holds 3 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 31st October 2013A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 7x + 5. Use it to estimate y when x = 8.