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August 2017 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 2017, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in August 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2017A line has equation y = 5x - 10. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 2nd August 2017Work out 40% of 280.
- 3rd August 2017A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 4th August 2017A bag holds 6 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 5th August 2017In a survey 9 households own 1 car, 3 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 6th August 2017A meal deal has 8 mains, 9 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 7th August 2017Solve 6(x - 4) = 18.
- 8th August 2017Write the ratio 6 : 54 in the form 1 : n.
- 9th August 2017A trapezium has parallel sides of 5 cm and 11 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 10th August 2017A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 11th August 2017A box plot has a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 63. Work out the range.
- 12th August 2017A bill is £336 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 13th August 2017Use v = u + at with u = 5, a = 5 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 14th August 2017A coach travels 50 km in 1.5 hours, then 20 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 15th August 2017Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 110°, 114° and 33°. Work out the fourth.
- 16th August 2017A bag holds 7 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 17th August 2017A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 5x + 27. Use it to estimate y when x = 4.
- 18th August 2017Work out (14 x 10^12) / (2 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 19th August 20172 teas and 3 cakes cost £7.75. 2 teas and 2 cakes cost £5.70. Find the price of a tea.
- 20th August 2017Musa drives 125 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 21st August 2017A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 18 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 20 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 22nd August 2017A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 23rd August 2017Four classes in order have frequencies 9, 10, 12, 7. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 24th August 2017A meal deal has 7 mains, 9 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 25th August 2017For the curve y = 50/x, work out y when x = -5, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 26th August 2017Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 3 : 4. There are 45 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 27th August 2017Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 28th August 2017A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 29th August 201710 beetles are marked and released. Later 50 are caught, of which 5 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 30th August 2017A bill is £144 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 31st August 2017Factorise x^2 - 4x - 12.