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October 2018 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day

Every Foundation Plus sheet published in October 2018, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.

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October 2018

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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Every sheet in October 2018

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st October 2018Factorise x^2 - 7x - 18.
  2. 2nd October 2018Write the ratio 8 : 48 in the form 1 : n.
  3. 3rd October 2018The bearing of B from A is 254°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  4. 4th October 2018A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  5. 5th October 2018A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 52 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
  6. 6th October 2018Work out (72 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  7. 7th October 2018Does the point (-4, -12) satisfy y > x - 6?
  8. 8th October 2018A coach travels 60 km in 0.5 hours, then 70 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  9. 9th October 2018A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  10. 10th October 2018A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  11. 11th October 2018110 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 30 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  12. 12th October 2018A meal deal has 3 mains, 5 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  13. 13th October 2018A line has gradient -3 and passes through (3, -6). Work out its equation.
  14. 14th October 2018Sanjay drives 120 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  15. 15th October 2018A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 6 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
  16. 16th October 2018A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  17. 17th October 2018A box plot has minimum 10, lower quartile 18, median 21, upper quartile 25 and maximum 33. Work out the interquartile range.
  18. 18th October 2018A bill is £240 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  19. 19th October 2018Make x the subject of y = 7x^2 - 11.
  20. 20th October 2018Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 3 : 8. There are 15 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
  21. 21st October 2018Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 101°, 97° and 51°. Work out the fourth.
  22. 22nd October 2018A bag holds 6 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  23. 23rd October 2018A scatter graph plots the number of pages in a book and its price. What type of correlation would you expect?
  24. 24th October 2018Work out (56 x 10^10) / (8 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  25. 25th October 2018The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 80)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  26. 26th October 2018A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 13.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
  27. 27th October 2018A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 6 cm. The prism is 14 cm long. Work out its volume.
  28. 28th October 2018A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  29. 29th October 2018Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 20 < x <= 25. The frequencies in order are 16, 7, 21, 11, 3. Write down the modal class.
  30. 30th October 2018A meal deal has 6 mains, 9 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  31. 31st October 2018Expand and simplify 5(5x + 6).

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