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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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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.
- 1st March 2017A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 2nd March 2017A box plot has minimum 6, lower quartile 12, median 14, upper quartile 24 and maximum 29. Work out the interquartile range.
- 3rd March 2017A bill is £216 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 4th March 2017Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 10.
- 5th March 2017Hassan drives 120 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 6th March 2017The bearing of B from A is 280°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 7th March 2017A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 8th March 2017A scatter graph plots the age of a car and its value. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 9th March 2017Work out (36 x 10^6) / (6 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 10th March 2017The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 114)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 11th March 2017Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 2 : 3. There are 18 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 15th March 2017A meal deal has 3 mains, 7 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 16th March 2017Expand and simplify 5(8x - 10).
- 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?
- 18th March 2017A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 15 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 19th March 2017A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 20th March 2017Of 59 students, 18 study French, 38 study German and 9 study both. How many study neither?
- 21st March 2017A bill is £216 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 22nd March 2017A line has equation y = 4x - 20. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 23rd March 2017A pack of 12 sponges costs £4.80. A pack of 48 costs £16.32. Which pack is better value?
- 24th March 2017Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 118°, 100° and 83°. Work out the fourth.
- 25th March 2017A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 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.
- 27th March 2017Work out (48 x 10^12) / (8 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 28th March 2017Solve 7(x - 3) = 56.
- 29th March 2017Work out 10% of 260.
- 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.
- 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.