Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 2015 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in January 2015, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in January 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2015A bill is £504 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 2nd January 2015Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 7.
- 3rd January 2015Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 3 : 8. There are 39 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 4th January 2015The bearing of B from A is 344°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 5th January 2015A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 6th January 2015A scatter graph plots rainfall in a week and the number of umbrellas sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 7th January 2015Work out (14 x 10^12) / (2 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 8th January 2015The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 30)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 9th January 2015A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 14 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 10th January 2015A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 6 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 11th January 2015A bag holds 6 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th January 2015Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 0 < x <= 5. The frequencies in order are 3, 16, 7, 21, 11. Write down the modal class.
- 13th January 2015A meal deal has 8 mains, 5 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 14th January 2015Expand and simplify 6(9x - 7).
- 15th January 2015A pack of 11 sponges costs £5.50. A pack of 22 costs £9.90. Which pack is better value?
- 16th January 2015A trapezium has parallel sides of 8 cm and 13 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 17th January 2015A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 18th January 2015Of 56 students, 30 study French, 28 study German and 13 study both. How many study neither?
- 19th January 2015A bill is £504 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 20th January 2015A line has equation y = 4x - 16. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 21st January 2015Work out 30% of 40.
- 22nd January 2015Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 101°, 95° and 103°. Work out the fourth.
- 23rd January 2015A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 24th January 2015In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 3 own 2 cars and 8 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 25th January 2015Work out (6 x 10^8) / (2 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 26th January 2015Solve 6(x + 5) = 54.
- 27th January 2015Write the ratio 3 : 27 in the form 1 : n.
- 28th January 2015A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 12 cm and height 12 cm. The prism is 20 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 29th January 2015A bag holds 6 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th January 2015A box plot has a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 37. Work out the range.
- 31st January 2015A meal deal has 3 mains, 7 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?