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December 2014 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in December 2014, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in December 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2014A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 2x + 5. Use it to estimate y when x = 8.
- 2nd December 2014Work out (54 x 10^11) / (6 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 3rd December 20143 teas and 2 cakes cost £9.50. 1 tea and 5 cakes cost £9.45. Find the price of a tea.
- 4th December 2014A pack of 7 teabags costs £1.75. A pack of 14 costs £3.08. Which pack is better value?
- 5th December 2014A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 9 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 6th December 2014A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th December 2014Four classes in order have frequencies 9, 9, 3, 7. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 8th December 2014A meal deal has 9 mains, 4 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 9th December 2014For the curve y = 36/x, work out y when x = 4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 10th December 2014Work out 20% of 160.
- 11th December 2014A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 17 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 12th December 2014A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 13th December 201460 newts are marked and released. Later 15 are caught, of which 5 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 14th December 2014A bill is £312 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 15th December 2014Factorise x^2 - 6x + 8.
- 16th December 2014Write the ratio 2 : 16 in the form 1 : n.
- 17th December 2014Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 67°, 121° and 87°. Work out the fourth.
- 18th December 2014A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th December 2014A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 196 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 20th December 2014Work out (30 x 10^9) / (5 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 21st December 2014Does the point (0, -2) satisfy y > 4x + 1?
- 22nd December 2014A coach travels 40 km in 1 hour, then 60 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 23rd December 2014A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 16 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 14 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 24th December 2014A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th December 2014130 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 26th December 2014A meal deal has 6 mains, 5 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 27th December 2014A line has gradient -3 and passes through (1, -7). Work out its equation.
- 28th December 2014Freya drives 125 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 29th December 2014Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 30th December 2014A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st December 2014A box plot has minimum 13, lower quartile 15, median 23, upper quartile 26 and maximum 29. Work out the interquartile range.