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March 2017 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day

Every Foundation Plus sheet published in March 2017, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.

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March 2017

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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Every sheet in March 2017

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st March 2017A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  2. 2nd March 2017A box plot has minimum 6, lower quartile 12, median 14, upper quartile 24 and maximum 29. Work out the interquartile range.
  3. 3rd March 2017A bill is £216 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  4. 4th March 2017Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 10.
  5. 5th March 2017Hassan drives 120 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  6. 6th March 2017The bearing of B from A is 280°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  7. 7th March 2017A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  8. 8th March 2017A scatter graph plots the age of a car and its value. What type of correlation would you expect?
  9. 9th March 2017Work out (36 x 10^6) / (6 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  10. 10th March 2017The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 114)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  11. 11th March 2017Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 2 : 3. There are 18 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
  12. 12th March 2017A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  13. 13th March 2017A bag holds 2 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  14. 14th March 2017Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 0 < x <= 5. The frequencies in order are 11, 7, 3, 16, 21. Write down the modal class.
  15. 15th March 2017A meal deal has 3 mains, 7 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  16. 16th March 2017Expand and simplify 5(8x - 10).
  17. 17th March 2017A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 9.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
  18. 18th March 2017A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 15 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
  19. 19th March 2017A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  20. 20th March 2017Of 59 students, 18 study French, 38 study German and 9 study both. How many study neither?
  21. 21st March 2017A bill is £216 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  22. 22nd March 2017A line has equation y = 4x - 20. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  23. 23rd March 2017A pack of 12 sponges costs £4.80. A pack of 48 costs £16.32. Which pack is better value?
  24. 24th March 2017Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 118°, 100° and 83°. Work out the fourth.
  25. 25th March 2017A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  26. 26th March 2017In a survey 8 households own 1 car, 3 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  27. 27th March 2017Work out (48 x 10^12) / (8 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
  28. 28th March 2017Solve 7(x - 3) = 56.
  29. 29th March 2017Work out 10% of 260.
  30. 30th March 2017A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 8 cm. The prism is 13 cm long. Work out its volume.
  31. 31st March 2017A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.

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