Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
August 2016 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 2016, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' August 2016 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in August 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2016A coach travels 30 km in 1.5 hours, then 40 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 2nd August 2016The bearing of B from A is 231°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 3rd August 2016A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 4th August 2016A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 208 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 5th August 2016Work out (16 x 10^9) / (4 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 6th August 2016Does the point (2, -21) satisfy y > -4x - 6?
- 7th August 2016Anika drives 100 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 8th August 2016A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 9th August 2016A bag holds 8 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th August 2016170 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 25 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 11th August 2016A meal deal has 7 mains, 4 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 12th August 2016A line has gradient 2 and passes through (4, 15). Work out its equation.
- 13th August 2016Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 8. There are 75 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 14th August 2016A trapezium has parallel sides of 8 cm and 10 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 15th August 2016A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 16th August 2016A box plot has minimum 3, lower quartile 7, median 10, upper quartile 14 and maximum 17. Work out the interquartile range.
- 17th August 2016A bill is £288 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 18th August 2016Make x the subject of y = 6x^2 - 7.
- 19th August 2016A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 4 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 20th August 2016Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 109°, 65° and 150°. Work out the fourth.
- 21st August 2016A bag holds 6 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 22nd August 2016A scatter graph plots a phone's age and its resale value. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 23rd August 2016Work out (16 x 10^6) / (2 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 24th August 2016The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 76)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 25th August 2016A pack of 5 batteries costs £2.75. A pack of 20 costs £10.40. Which pack is better value?
- 26th August 2016A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 11 cm. The prism is 17 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 27th August 2016A bag holds 5 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th August 2016Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 0 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 7, 16, 3, 21, 11. Write down the modal class.
- 29th August 2016A meal deal has 9 mains, 9 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 30th August 2016Expand and simplify 4(9x + 10).
- 31st August 2016Work out 60% of 380.