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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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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' October 2018 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
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.
- 1st October 2018Factorise x^2 - 7x - 18.
- 2nd October 2018Write the ratio 8 : 48 in the form 1 : n.
- 3rd October 2018The bearing of B from A is 254°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 4th October 2018A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 5th October 2018A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 52 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 6th October 2018Work out (72 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 7th October 2018Does the point (-4, -12) satisfy y > x - 6?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 12th October 2018A meal deal has 3 mains, 5 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 13th October 2018A line has gradient -3 and passes through (3, -6). Work out its equation.
- 14th October 2018Sanjay drives 120 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 15th October 2018A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 6 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 16th October 2018A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 17th October 2018A box plot has minimum 10, lower quartile 18, median 21, upper quartile 25 and maximum 33. Work out the interquartile range.
- 18th October 2018A bill is £240 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 19th October 2018Make x the subject of y = 7x^2 - 11.
- 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?
- 21st October 2018Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 101°, 97° and 51°. Work out the fourth.
- 22nd October 2018A bag holds 6 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 23rd October 2018A scatter graph plots the number of pages in a book and its price. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 24th October 2018Work out (56 x 10^10) / (8 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 25th October 2018The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 80)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 30th October 2018A meal deal has 6 mains, 9 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 31st October 2018Expand and simplify 5(5x + 6).