Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 2016 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in January 2016, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in January 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2016A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 3x + 19. Use it to estimate y when x = 8.
- 2nd January 2016Work out (36 x 10^12) / (9 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 3rd January 20163 teas and 3 cakes cost £12.45. 2 teas and 3 cakes cost £10.80. Find the price of a tea.
- 4th January 2016A coach travels 40 km in 1 hour, then 30 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 5th January 2016A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 6th January 2016A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th January 2016Four classes in order have frequencies 5, 5, 3, 7. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 8th January 2016A meal deal has 6 mains, 9 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 9th January 2016For the curve y = 2/x, work out y when x = -2, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 10th January 2016Anika drives 100 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 11th January 2016A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 12 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 12th January 2016A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 13th January 201615 beetles are marked and released. Later 70 are caught, of which 7 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 14th January 2016A bill is £360 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 15th January 2016Factorise x^2 - 10x + 25.
- 16th January 2016Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 5 : 9. There are 25 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
- 17th January 2016Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 135°, 104° and 91°. Work out the fourth.
- 18th January 2016A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th January 2016A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 120 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 20th January 2016Work out (35 x 10^11) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 21st January 2016Does the point (-3, 20) satisfy y > -3x + 7?
- 22nd January 2016A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 4.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 23rd January 2016A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 4 cm and height 9 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 24th January 2016A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th January 2016130 people were surveyed. 50 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. 35 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 26th January 2016A meal deal has 9 mains, 3 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 27th January 2016A line has gradient -2 and passes through (3, -4). Work out its equation.
- 28th January 2016A pack of 9 batteries costs £3.60. A pack of 36 costs £12.60. Which pack is better value?
- 29th January 2016Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 30th January 2016A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st January 2016A box plot has minimum 1, lower quartile 7, median 16, upper quartile 26 and maximum 32. Work out the interquartile range.