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May 1953 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1953
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 195320 beetles are marked and released. Later 22 are caught, of which 2 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 2nd May 1953A meal deal has 5 mains, 3 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 3rd May 1953Factorise x^2 + 3x - 28.
- 4th May 1953A coach travels 60 km in 1 hour, then 80 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 5th May 1953A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 17 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 6th May 1953A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 7th May 1953A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 160 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 8th May 1953A bill is £240 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 9th May 1953Does the point (1, 2) satisfy y > x + 6?
- 10th May 1953Isla drives 240 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 11th May 1953Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 130°, 90° and 70°. Work out the fourth.
- 12th May 1953A bag holds 8 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 13th May 1953120 people were surveyed. 80 were adults, of whom 40 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 14th May 1953Work out (48 x 10^10) / (8 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 15th May 1953A line has gradient 1 and passes through (6, 2). Work out its equation.
- 16th May 1953Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 5 : 7. There are 70 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 17th May 1953A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 4 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 18th May 1953A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th May 1953A box plot has minimum 15, lower quartile 19, median 24, upper quartile 33 and maximum 40. Work out the interquartile range.
- 20th May 1953A meal deal has 5 mains, 7 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 21st May 1953Make x the subject of y = 7x^2 - 11.
- 22nd May 1953A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 9.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 23rd May 1953Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 24th May 1953A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 25th May 1953A scatter graph plots the number of hours revised and the test mark. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 26th May 1953A bill is £432 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 27th May 1953The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 75)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 28th May 1953A pack of 8 pencils costs £4.00. A pack of 24 costs £11.28. Which pack is better value?
- 29th May 1953The bearing of B from A is 194°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 30th May 1953A bag holds 10 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 31st May 1953Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 20 < x <= 25. The frequencies in order are 7, 21, 3, 11, 16. Write down the modal class.