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August 2018 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in August 2018, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in August 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2018A meal deal has 4 mains, 7 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 2nd August 2018Does the point (-3, 9) satisfy y > -x + 8?
- 3rd August 2018A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 6.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 4th August 2018A trapezium has parallel sides of 9 cm and 18 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 5th August 2018A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 6th August 2018240 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. 85 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 7th August 2018A bill is £888 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 8th August 2018A line has gradient 3 and passes through (6, 16). Work out its equation.
- 9th August 2018A pack of 7 batteries costs £1.40. A pack of 28 costs £5.04. Which pack is better value?
- 10th August 2018Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 97°, 88° and 98°. Work out the fourth.
- 11th August 2018A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th August 2018A box plot has minimum 9, lower quartile 19, median 26, upper quartile 32 and maximum 34. Work out the interquartile range.
- 13th August 2018Work out (12 x 10^8) / (6 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 14th August 2018Make x the subject of y = 4x^2 - 5.
- 15th August 2018Work out 75% of 360.
- 16th August 2018A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 4 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 18 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 17th August 2018A bag holds 2 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th August 2018A scatter graph plots the age of a car and its value. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 19th August 2018A meal deal has 9 mains, 7 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 20th August 2018The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 40)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 21st August 2018Write the ratio 4 : 32 in the form 1 : n.
- 22nd August 2018Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
- 23rd August 2018A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 24th August 2018Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 20 < x <= 30. The frequencies in order are 11, 3, 21, 7, 16. Write down the modal class.
- 25th August 2018A bill is £336 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 26th August 2018Expand and simplify 9(7x + 2).
- 27th August 2018A coach travels 60 km in 1.5 hours, then 40 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 28th August 2018The bearing of B from A is 100°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 29th August 2018A bag holds 4 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th August 2018Of 75 students, 38 study French, 36 study German and 10 study both. How many study neither?
- 31st August 2018Work out (10 x 10^11) / (5 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.