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January 1955

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st January 1955A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 6 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  2. 2nd January 1955A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  3. 3rd January 1955A box plot has minimum 9, lower quartile 11, median 16, upper quartile 21 and maximum 27. Work out the interquartile range.
  4. 4th January 1955A meal deal has 7 mains, 3 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  5. 5th January 1955Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 7.
  6. 6th January 1955A pack of 8 pencils costs £4.40. A pack of 24 costs £12.72. Which pack is better value?
  7. 7th January 1955A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 10 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
  8. 8th January 1955A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  9. 9th January 1955A scatter graph plots a car's engine size and the miles it does per gallon. What type of correlation would you expect?
  10. 10th January 1955A bill is £336 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  11. 11th January 1955The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 3x° and (x + 66)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  12. 12th January 1955Work out 10% of 220.
  13. 13th January 1955Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 119°, 100° and 92°. Work out the fourth.
  14. 14th January 1955A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  15. 15th January 1955Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 10 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 21, 3, 16, 11, 7. Write down the modal class.
  16. 16th January 1955Work out (18 x 10^8) / (9 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  17. 17th January 1955Expand and simplify 6(3x + 6).
  18. 18th January 1955Write the ratio 2 : 18 in the form 1 : n.
  19. 19th January 1955A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 20 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 11 cm long. Work out its volume.
  20. 20th January 1955A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  21. 21st January 1955Of 38 students, 12 study French, 24 study German and 6 study both. How many study neither?
  22. 22nd January 1955A meal deal has 8 mains, 6 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  23. 23rd January 1955A line has equation y = 5x - 10. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  24. 24th January 1955A coach travels 60 km in 0.5 hours, then 60 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  25. 25th January 1955Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
  26. 26th January 1955A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  27. 27th January 1955In a survey 2 households own 1 car, 6 own 2 cars and 4 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  28. 28th January 1955A bill is £504 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  29. 29th January 1955Solve 3(x - 3) = 21.
  30. 30th January 1955Kwame drives 150 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  31. 31st January 1955The bearing of B from A is 109°. Work out the bearing of A from B.

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