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March 1957

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st March 1957A line has gradient 2 and passes through (1, 5). Work out its equation.
  2. 2nd March 1957Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 3 : 4. There are 27 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
  3. 3rd March 1957A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 6 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  4. 4th March 1957A bag holds 9 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  5. 5th March 1957A box plot has minimum 12, lower quartile 15, median 19, upper quartile 22 and maximum 25. Work out the interquartile range.
  6. 6th March 1957A meal deal has 7 mains, 3 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  7. 7th March 1957Make x the subject of y = 6x^2 - 6.
  8. 8th March 1957A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 3.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
  9. 9th March 1957A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 22 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
  10. 10th March 1957A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  11. 11th March 1957A scatter graph plots the height of a tree and its age. What type of correlation would you expect?
  12. 12th March 1957A bill is £792 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  13. 13th March 1957The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 68)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  14. 14th March 1957A pack of 5 pencils costs £2.00. A pack of 10 costs £3.60. Which pack is better value?
  15. 15th March 1957Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 130°, 128° and 71°. Work out the fourth.
  16. 16th March 1957A bag holds 9 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  17. 17th March 1957Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 20 < x <= 25. The frequencies in order are 16, 3, 11, 21, 7. Write down the modal class.
  18. 18th March 1957Work out (32 x 10^12) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  19. 19th March 1957Expand and simplify 9(7x + 1).
  20. 20th March 1957Work out 5% of 160.
  21. 21st March 1957A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 14 cm and height 11 cm. The prism is 8 cm long. Work out its volume.
  22. 22nd March 1957A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  23. 23rd March 1957Of 72 students, 24 study French, 41 study German and 12 study both. How many study neither?
  24. 24th March 1957A meal deal has 9 mains, 8 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  25. 25th March 1957A line has equation y = 4x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  26. 26th March 1957Write the ratio 4 : 12 in the form 1 : n.
  27. 27th March 1957Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
  28. 28th March 1957A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  29. 29th March 1957In a survey 5 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 8 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  30. 30th March 1957A bill is £48 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  31. 31st March 1957Solve 6(x + 8) = 60.

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