Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 2015 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in May 2015, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' May 2015 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in May 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2015A meal deal has 7 mains, 7 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 2nd May 2015Does the point (0, -9) satisfy y > -4x - 2?
- 3rd May 2015Idris drives 75 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 4th May 2015A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 12 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 5th May 2015A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 6th May 2015180 people were surveyed. 60 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 20 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 7th May 2015A bill is £528 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 8th May 2015A line has gradient 1 and passes through (1, 0). Work out its equation.
- 9th May 2015Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 2 : 5. There are 26 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 10th May 2015Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 101°, 71° and 153°. Work out the fourth.
- 11th May 2015A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th May 2015A box plot has minimum 11, lower quartile 16, median 26, upper quartile 30 and maximum 38. Work out the interquartile range.
- 13th May 2015Work out (48 x 10^12) / (6 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 14th May 2015Make x the subject of y = 4x^2 - 12.
- 15th May 2015A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 3 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 16th May 2015A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 20 cm and height 5 cm. The prism is 20 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 17th May 2015A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th May 2015A scatter graph plots a house's floor area and its asking price. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 19th May 2015A meal deal has 4 mains, 7 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 20th May 2015The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 103)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 21st May 2015A pack of 12 sponges costs £5.40. A pack of 36 costs £14.76. Which pack is better value?
- 22nd May 2015Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 23rd May 2015A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 24th May 2015Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 15 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 3, 11, 21, 16, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 25th May 2015A bill is £48 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 26th May 2015Expand and simplify 3(5x - 5).
- 27th May 2015Work out 40% of 400.
- 28th May 2015The bearing of B from A is 117°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 29th May 2015A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th May 2015Of 54 students, 26 study French, 22 study German and 8 study both. How many study neither?
- 31st May 2015Work out (4 x 10^10) / (2 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.