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January 2021 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in January 2021, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in January 2021
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2021A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 2.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 2nd January 2021Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 3rd January 2021A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 4th January 2021Of 34 students, 19 study French, 14 study German and 8 study both. How many study neither?
- 5th January 2021A bill is £144 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 6th January 2021A line has equation y = 5x - 20. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 7th January 2021A pack of 4 teabags costs £1.00. A pack of 12 costs £2.76. Which pack is better value?
- 8th January 2021The bearing of B from A is 341°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 9th January 2021A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th January 2021In a survey 5 households own 1 car, 4 own 2 cars and 8 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 11th January 2021Work out (45 x 10^12) / (9 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 12th January 2021Solve 7(x + 6) = 63.
- 13th January 2021Work out 10% of 200.
- 14th January 2021A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 15th January 2021A bag holds 3 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th January 2021A box plot has a minimum of 18 and a maximum of 46. Work out the range.
- 17th January 2021A meal deal has 7 mains, 3 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 18th January 2021Use v = u + at with u = 9, a = 3 and t = 6. Work out v.
- 19th January 2021Write the ratio 2 : 10 in the form 1 : n.
- 20th January 2021A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 14 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 21st January 2021A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 22nd January 2021A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 5x + 35. Use it to estimate y when x = 3.
- 23rd January 2021A bill is £528 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 24th January 20214 teas and 3 cakes cost £14.25. 4 teas and 4 cakes cost £16.80. Find the price of a tea.
- 25th January 2021A coach travels 60 km in 1 hour, then 30 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 26th January 2021Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 132°, 134° and 37°. Work out the fourth.
- 27th January 2021A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th January 2021Four classes in order have frequencies 8, 6, 6, 11. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 29th January 2021Work out (28 x 10^10) / (4 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 30th January 2021For the curve y = 25/x, work out y when x = -5, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 31st January 2021Rhys drives 105 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.