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August 1956 5-a-day
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Every sheet in August 1956
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- 1st August 195660 fish are marked and released. Later 8 are caught, of which 2 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 2nd August 1956A meal deal has 7 mains, 9 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 3rd August 1956Factorise x^2 - 4.
- 4th August 1956Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 4 : 5. There are 36 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 5th August 1956A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 21 cm, 10 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 6th August 1956A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 7th August 1956A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 64 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 8th August 1956A bill is £480 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 9th August 1956Does the point (-2, -9) satisfy y > 4x + 4?
- 10th August 1956A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 14 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 11th August 1956Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 129°, 72° and 125°. Work out the fourth.
- 12th August 1956A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 13th August 1956180 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 60 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 14th August 1956Work out (81 x 10^8) / (9 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 15th August 1956A line has gradient 2 and passes through (3, -2). Work out its equation.
- 16th August 1956A pack of 6 sponges costs 90p. A pack of 12 costs £1.20. Which pack is better value?
- 17th August 1956A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 6 cm and height 4 cm. The prism is 5 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 18th August 1956A bag holds 6 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th August 1956A box plot has minimum 7, lower quartile 17, median 19, upper quartile 28 and maximum 34. Work out the interquartile range.
- 20th August 1956A meal deal has 8 mains, 6 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 21st August 1956Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 4.
- 22nd August 1956Work out 20% of 40.
- 23rd August 1956Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 24th August 1956A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 25th August 1956A scatter graph plots the length of a queue and the number of tills open. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 26th August 1956A bill is £240 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 27th August 1956The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 80)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 28th August 1956Write the ratio 3 : 27 in the form 1 : n.
- 29th August 1956The bearing of B from A is 088°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 30th August 1956A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 31st August 1956Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 40 < x <= 50. The frequencies in order are 16, 11, 21, 7, 3. Write down the modal class.