Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 2018 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in January 2018, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in January 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2018A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 2nd January 2018Four classes in order have frequencies 6, 4, 5, 6. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 3rd January 2018A bill is £48 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 4th January 2018For the curve y = -20/x, work out y when x = -2, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 5th January 2018A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 7.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 6th January 2018Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 102°, 50° and 44°. Work out the fourth.
- 7th January 2018A bag holds 6 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 8th January 201855 newts are marked and released. Later 10 are caught, of which 2 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 9th January 2018Work out (49 x 10^10) / (7 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 10th January 2018Factorise x^2 + 3x - 40.
- 11th January 2018A pack of 7 teabags costs £3.85. A pack of 21 costs £10.50. Which pack is better value?
- 12th January 2018A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 12 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 8 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 13th January 2018A bag holds 2 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 14th January 2018A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 52 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 15th January 2018A meal deal has 7 mains, 7 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 16th January 2018Does the point (1, 4) satisfy y > 2x - 3?
- 17th January 2018Work out 20% of 100.
- 18th January 2018Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 19th January 2018A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 20th January 2018160 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 20 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 21st January 2018A bill is £144 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 22nd January 2018A line has gradient -2 and passes through (5, -19). Work out its equation.
- 23rd January 2018Write the ratio 7 : 63 in the form 1 : n.
- 24th January 2018The bearing of B from A is 138°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 25th January 2018A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 26th January 2018A box plot has minimum 9, lower quartile 14, median 16, upper quartile 24 and maximum 32. Work out the interquartile range.
- 27th January 2018Work out (9 x 10^11) / (3 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 28th January 2018Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 6.
- 29th January 2018A coach travels 90 km in 1 hour, then 40 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 30th January 2018A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 31st January 2018A bag holds 4 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.