Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 2021 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in May 2021, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in May 2021
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2021Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 8. There are 40 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 2nd May 2021A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 3rd May 2021A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 4th May 2021A scatter graph plots the day of the month and the temperature at noon. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 5th May 2021A meal deal has 3 mains, 5 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 6th May 2021The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 102)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 7th May 2021A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 15 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 8th May 2021A trapezium has parallel sides of 8 cm and 11 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 9th May 2021A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 10th May 2021Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 0 < x <= 5. The frequencies in order are 16, 21, 11, 3, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 11th May 2021A bill is £72 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 12th May 2021Expand and simplify 2(9x + 5).
- 13th May 2021A pack of 10 pencils costs £3.00. A pack of 20 costs £5.00. Which pack is better value?
- 14th May 2021Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 65°, 57° and 98°. Work out the fourth.
- 15th May 2021A bag holds 6 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th May 2021Of 60 students, 22 study French, 35 study German and 7 study both. How many study neither?
- 17th May 2021Work out (56 x 10^7) / (8 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 18th May 2021A line has equation y = 4x - 4. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 19th May 2021Work out 5% of 180.
- 20th May 2021A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 12 cm and height 12 cm. The prism is 19 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 21st May 2021A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 22nd May 2021In a survey 9 households own 1 car, 8 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 23rd May 2021A meal deal has 9 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 24th May 2021Solve 6(x + 6) = 108.
- 25th May 2021Write the ratio 5 : 15 in the form 1 : n.
- 26th May 2021Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 27th May 2021A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 28th May 2021A box plot has a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 73. Work out the range.
- 29th May 2021A bill is £792 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 30th May 2021Use v = u + at with u = 2, a = 6 and t = 6. Work out v.
- 31st May 2021A coach travels 20 km in 1.5 hours, then 20 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.