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March 1953

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st March 1953A bag holds 8 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  2. 2nd March 1953A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 92 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
  3. 3rd March 1953Work out (36 x 10^10) / (6 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
  4. 4th March 1953Does the point (2, 3) satisfy y > -2x + 6?
  5. 5th March 1953A pack of 4 pencils costs £1.40. A pack of 16 costs £4.64. Which pack is better value?
  6. 6th March 1953A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 10 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 20 cm long. Work out its volume.
  7. 7th March 1953A bag holds 3 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  8. 8th March 1953220 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 40 said yes. 10 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  9. 9th March 1953A meal deal has 4 mains, 5 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  10. 10th March 1953A line has gradient 3 and passes through (1, 12). Work out its equation.
  11. 11th March 1953Work out 60% of 380.
  12. 12th March 1953Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
  13. 13th March 1953A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  14. 14th March 1953A box plot has minimum 10, lower quartile 16, median 21, upper quartile 31 and maximum 37. Work out the interquartile range.
  15. 15th March 1953A bill is £96 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  16. 16th March 1953Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 11.
  17. 17th March 1953Write the ratio 8 : 72 in the form 1 : n.
  18. 18th March 1953The bearing of B from A is 251°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  19. 19th March 1953A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  20. 20th March 1953A scatter graph plots rainfall in a week and the number of umbrellas sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
  21. 21st March 1953Work out (16 x 10^6) / (8 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  22. 22nd March 1953The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 84)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  23. 23rd March 1953A coach travels 50 km in 1.5 hours, then 40 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  24. 24th March 1953A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  25. 25th March 1953A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  26. 26th March 1953Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 0 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 16, 3, 11, 7, 21. Write down the modal class.
  27. 27th March 1953A meal deal has 4 mains, 6 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  28. 28th March 1953Expand and simplify 6(9x + 5).
  29. 29th March 1953Ade drives 140 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  30. 30th March 1953A trapezium has parallel sides of 12 cm and 16 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
  31. 31st March 1953A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?

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