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March 2015 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in March 2015, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in March 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2015240 people were surveyed. 60 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 75 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 2nd March 2015Work out (16 x 10^11) / (8 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 3rd March 2015A line has gradient 4 and passes through (1, 2). Work out its equation.
- 4th March 2015Work out 25% of 240.
- 5th March 2015A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 12 cm and height 12 cm. The prism is 4 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 6th March 2015A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th March 2015A box plot has minimum 6, lower quartile 9, median 19, upper quartile 27 and maximum 36. Work out the interquartile range.
- 8th March 2015A meal deal has 9 mains, 9 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 9th March 2015Make x the subject of y = 3x^2 - 9.
- 10th March 2015Write the ratio 5 : 40 in the form 1 : n.
- 11th March 2015Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 12th March 2015A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 13th March 2015A scatter graph plots a pupil's height and their score in a spelling test. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 14th March 2015A bill is £552 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 15th March 2015The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 26)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 16th March 2015A coach travels 60 km in 1 hour, then 40 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 17th March 2015The bearing of B from A is 030°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 18th March 2015A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th March 2015Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 30 < x <= 40. The frequencies in order are 3, 21, 11, 7, 16. Write down the modal class.
- 20th March 2015Work out (9 x 10^9) / (3 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 21st March 2015Expand and simplify 4(3x + 4).
- 22nd March 2015Kwame drives 90 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 23rd March 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.
- 24th March 2015A bag holds 2 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th March 2015Of 59 students, 31 study French, 26 study German and 10 study both. How many study neither?
- 26th March 2015A meal deal has 9 mains, 4 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 27th March 2015A line has equation y = 3x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 28th March 2015Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 2 : 3. There are 16 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 29th March 2015A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 15 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 30th March 2015A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st March 2015In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.