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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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December 2014

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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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.

  1. 1st December 2014A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 2x + 5. Use it to estimate y when x = 8.
  2. 2nd December 2014Work out (54 x 10^11) / (6 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  3. 3rd December 20143 teas and 2 cakes cost £9.50. 1 tea and 5 cakes cost £9.45. Find the price of a tea.
  4. 4th December 2014A pack of 7 teabags costs £1.75. A pack of 14 costs £3.08. Which pack is better value?
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 7th December 2014Four classes in order have frequencies 9, 9, 3, 7. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
  8. 8th December 2014A meal deal has 9 mains, 4 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  9. 9th December 2014For the curve y = 36/x, work out y when x = 4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
  10. 10th December 2014Work out 20% of 160.
  11. 11th December 2014A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 17 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
  12. 12th December 2014A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  13. 13th December 201460 newts are marked and released. Later 15 are caught, of which 5 are marked. Estimate the population.
  14. 14th December 2014A bill is £312 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  15. 15th December 2014Factorise x^2 - 6x + 8.
  16. 16th December 2014Write the ratio 2 : 16 in the form 1 : n.
  17. 17th December 2014Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 67°, 121° and 87°. Work out the fourth.
  18. 18th December 2014A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  19. 19th December 2014A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 196 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
  20. 20th December 2014Work out (30 x 10^9) / (5 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  21. 21st December 2014Does the point (0, -2) satisfy y > 4x + 1?
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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?
  26. 26th December 2014A meal deal has 6 mains, 5 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  27. 27th December 2014A line has gradient -3 and passes through (1, -7). Work out its equation.
  28. 28th December 2014Freya drives 125 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  29. 29th December 2014Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
  30. 30th December 2014A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  31. 31st December 2014A box plot has minimum 13, lower quartile 15, median 23, upper quartile 26 and maximum 29. Work out the interquartile range.

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