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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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May 2021

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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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.

  1. 1st May 2021Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 8. There are 40 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 4th May 2021A scatter graph plots the day of the month and the temperature at noon. What type of correlation would you expect?
  5. 5th May 2021A meal deal has 3 mains, 5 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  6. 6th May 2021The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 102)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  7. 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?
  8. 8th May 2021A trapezium has parallel sides of 8 cm and 11 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
  9. 9th May 2021A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  10. 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.
  11. 11th May 2021A bill is £72 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  12. 12th May 2021Expand and simplify 2(9x + 5).
  13. 13th May 2021A pack of 10 pencils costs £3.00. A pack of 20 costs £5.00. Which pack is better value?
  14. 14th May 2021Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 65°, 57° and 98°. Work out the fourth.
  15. 15th May 2021A bag holds 6 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  16. 16th May 2021Of 60 students, 22 study French, 35 study German and 7 study both. How many study neither?
  17. 17th May 2021Work out (56 x 10^7) / (8 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  18. 18th May 2021A line has equation y = 4x - 4. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  19. 19th May 2021Work out 5% of 180.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 23rd May 2021A meal deal has 9 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  24. 24th May 2021Solve 6(x + 6) = 108.
  25. 25th May 2021Write the ratio 5 : 15 in the form 1 : n.
  26. 26th May 2021Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
  27. 27th May 2021A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  28. 28th May 2021A box plot has a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 73. Work out the range.
  29. 29th May 2021A bill is £792 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  30. 30th May 2021Use v = u + at with u = 2, a = 6 and t = 6. Work out v.
  31. 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.

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