Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
September 2015 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in September 2015, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in September 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2015A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 5 cm. The prism is 8 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 2nd September 2015A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 3rd September 201560 beetles are marked and released. Later 24 are caught, of which 3 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 4th September 2015A meal deal has 5 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 5th September 2015Factorise x^2 + 3x - 40.
- 6th September 2015Finlay drives 200 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 7th September 2015Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 8th September 2015A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 9th September 2015A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 168 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 10th September 2015A bill is £96 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 11th September 2015Does the point (4, 11) satisfy y > -x + 8?
- 12th September 2015Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 3 : 5. There are 15 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 13th September 2015The bearing of B from A is 312°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 14th September 2015A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th September 2015100 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 35 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 16th September 2015Work out (28 x 10^9) / (4 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 17th September 2015A line has gradient 3 and passes through (3, 18). Work out its equation.
- 18th September 2015A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 13 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 19th September 2015A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 11 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 20th September 2015A bag holds 3 red and 9 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 21st September 2015A box plot has minimum 13, lower quartile 15, median 25, upper quartile 27 and maximum 33. Work out the interquartile range.
- 22nd September 2015A meal deal has 6 mains, 8 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 23rd September 2015Make x the subject of y = 2x^2 - 6.
- 24th September 2015A pack of 12 teabags costs £2.40. A pack of 48 costs £7.20. Which pack is better value?
- 25th September 2015A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 11 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 26th September 2015A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 27th September 2015A scatter graph plots the day of the month and the temperature at noon. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 28th September 2015A bill is £408 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 29th September 2015The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 61)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 30th September 2015Work out 25% of 80.