Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
August 2015 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 2015, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in August 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2015Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 4 : 5. There are 28 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 2nd August 2015Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 3rd August 2015A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 4th August 2015Of 64 students, 19 study French, 40 study German and 12 study both. How many study neither?
- 5th August 2015A bill is £504 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 6th August 2015A line has equation y = 5x - 5. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 7th August 2015A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 6.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 8th August 2015The bearing of B from A is 148°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 9th August 2015A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th August 2015In a survey 4 households own 1 car, 7 own 2 cars and 4 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 11th August 2015Work out (56 x 10^7) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 12th August 2015Solve 6(x + 8) = 66.
- 13th August 2015A pack of 9 sponges costs £1.80. A pack of 27 costs £4.59. Which pack is better value?
- 14th August 2015A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 15th August 2015A bag holds 4 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th August 2015A box plot has a minimum of 17 and a maximum of 28. Work out the range.
- 17th August 2015A meal deal has 5 mains, 8 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 18th August 2015Use v = u + at with u = 5, a = 3 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 19th August 2015Work out 20% of 180.
- 20th August 2015A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 23 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 21st August 2015A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 22nd August 2015A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 2x + 27. Use it to estimate y when x = 10.
- 23rd August 2015A bill is £192 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 24th August 20154 teas and 2 cakes cost £9.00. 2 teas and 5 cakes cost £10.50. Find the price of a tea.
- 25th August 2015Write the ratio 8 : 16 in the form 1 : n.
- 26th August 2015Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 86°, 72° and 132°. Work out the fourth.
- 27th August 2015A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th August 2015Four classes in order have frequencies 9, 3, 11, 5. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 29th August 2015Work out (30 x 10^8) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 30th August 2015For the curve y = -36/x, work out y when x = -4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 31st August 2015A coach travels 40 km in 0.5 hours, then 50 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.