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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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May 2017

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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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.

  1. 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?
  2. 2nd May 2017Work out (20 x 10^8) / (4 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
  3. 3rd May 2017A line has gradient -4 and passes through (2, -17). Work out its equation.
  4. 4th May 2017A pack of 5 teabags costs £2.50. A pack of 20 costs £9.60. Which pack is better value?
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 7th May 2017A box plot has minimum 9, lower quartile 14, median 23, upper quartile 30 and maximum 39. Work out the interquartile range.
  8. 8th May 2017A meal deal has 3 mains, 8 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  9. 9th May 2017Make x the subject of y = 2x^2 - 6.
  10. 10th May 2017Work out 30% of 380.
  11. 11th May 2017Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
  12. 12th May 2017A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  13. 13th May 2017A scatter graph plots the length of a queue and the number of tills open. What type of correlation would you expect?
  14. 14th May 2017A bill is £888 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  15. 15th May 2017The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  16. 16th May 2017Write the ratio 6 : 36 in the form 1 : n.
  17. 17th May 2017The bearing of B from A is 269°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  18. 18th May 2017A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  19. 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.
  20. 20th May 2017Work out (18 x 10^10) / (6 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
  21. 21st May 2017Expand and simplify 9(5x - 2).
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 25th May 2017Of 47 students, 17 study French, 28 study German and 4 study both. How many study neither?
  26. 26th May 2017A meal deal has 8 mains, 7 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  27. 27th May 2017A line has equation y = 5x - 5. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  28. 28th May 2017Maeve drives 320 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  29. 29th May 2017A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 10 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
  30. 30th May 2017A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  31. 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.

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