Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
August 2014 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 2014, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in August 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2014A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 20 cm and height 7 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 2nd August 2014A bag holds 4 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 3rd August 201420 beetles are marked and released. Later 99 are caught, of which 9 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 4th August 2014A meal deal has 7 mains, 3 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 5th August 2014Factorise x^2 - x - 56.
- 6th August 2014Work out 20% of 280.
- 7th August 2014Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 8th August 2014A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 9th August 2014A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 48 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 10th August 2014A bill is £360 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 11th August 2014Does the point (3, 5) satisfy y > 3x + 3?
- 12th August 2014Write the ratio 8 : 40 in the form 1 : n.
- 13th August 2014The bearing of B from A is 227°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 14th August 2014A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th August 201490 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 25 said yes. 10 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 16th August 2014Work out (48 x 10^9) / (6 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 17th August 2014A line has gradient 2 and passes through (3, -2). Work out its equation.
- 18th August 2014A coach travels 70 km in 1.5 hours, then 60 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 19th August 2014A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 20th August 2014A bag holds 2 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 21st August 2014A box plot has minimum 3, lower quartile 12, median 17, upper quartile 22 and maximum 27. Work out the interquartile range.
- 22nd August 2014A meal deal has 9 mains, 5 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 23rd August 2014Make x the subject of y = 6x^2 - 5.
- 24th August 2014Sanjay drives 240 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 25th August 2014A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 10 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 26th August 2014A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 27th August 2014A scatter graph plots a pupil's height and their score in a spelling test. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 28th August 2014A bill is £648 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 29th August 2014The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 19)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 30th August 2014Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 5 : 6. There are 55 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 31st August 2014Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 135°, 54° and 65°. Work out the fourth.