Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 2017 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in May 2017, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in May 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2017110 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 25 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 2nd May 2017Work out (20 x 10^8) / (4 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 3rd May 2017A line has gradient -4 and passes through (2, -17). Work out its equation.
- 4th May 2017A pack of 5 teabags costs £2.50. A pack of 20 costs £9.60. Which pack is better value?
- 5th May 2017A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 4 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 6th May 2017A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th May 2017A box plot has minimum 9, lower quartile 14, median 23, upper quartile 30 and maximum 39. Work out the interquartile range.
- 8th May 2017A meal deal has 3 mains, 8 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 9th May 2017Make x the subject of y = 2x^2 - 6.
- 10th May 2017Work out 30% of 380.
- 11th May 2017Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 12th May 2017A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 13th May 2017A scatter graph plots the length of a queue and the number of tills open. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 14th May 2017A bill is £888 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 15th May 2017The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 16th May 2017Write the ratio 6 : 36 in the form 1 : n.
- 17th May 2017The bearing of B from A is 269°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 18th May 2017A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th May 2017Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 10 < x <= 15. The frequencies in order are 21, 11, 16, 7, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 20th May 2017Work out (18 x 10^10) / (6 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 21st May 2017Expand and simplify 9(5x - 2).
- 22nd May 2017A coach travels 50 km in 1 hour, then 30 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 23rd May 2017A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 24th May 2017A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th May 2017Of 47 students, 17 study French, 28 study German and 4 study both. How many study neither?
- 26th May 2017A meal deal has 8 mains, 7 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 27th May 2017A line has equation y = 5x - 5. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 28th May 2017Maeve drives 320 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 29th May 2017A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 10 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 30th May 2017A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st May 2017In a survey 3 households own 1 car, 7 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.