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May 1957

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st May 1957Work out 40% of 400.
  2. 2nd May 1957Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
  3. 3rd May 1957A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  4. 4th May 1957140 people were surveyed. 50 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 30 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  5. 5th May 1957A bill is £960 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  6. 6th May 1957A line has gradient 5 and passes through (1, 12). Work out its equation.
  7. 7th May 1957Write the ratio 8 : 48 in the form 1 : n.
  8. 8th May 1957The bearing of B from A is 358°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  9. 9th May 1957A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  10. 10th May 1957A box plot has minimum 3, lower quartile 13, median 21, upper quartile 23 and maximum 26. Work out the interquartile range.
  11. 11th May 1957Work out (15 x 10^11) / (3 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  12. 12th May 1957Make x the subject of y = 4x^2 - 2.
  13. 13th May 1957A coach travels 30 km in 1.5 hours, then 80 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  14. 14th May 1957A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  15. 15th May 1957A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  16. 16th May 1957A scatter graph plots the age of a car and its value. What type of correlation would you expect?
  17. 17th May 1957A meal deal has 4 mains, 9 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  18. 18th May 1957The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 18)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  19. 19th May 1957Priya drives 135 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  20. 20th May 1957A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 8 cm, 10 cm apart. Work out its area.
  21. 21st May 1957A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  22. 22nd May 1957Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 0 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 3, 7, 21, 11, 16. Write down the modal class.
  23. 23rd May 1957A bill is £480 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  24. 24th May 1957Expand and simplify 8(3x - 2).
  25. 25th May 1957Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 5 : 6. There are 45 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
  26. 26th May 1957Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 116°, 126° and 80°. Work out the fourth.
  27. 27th May 1957A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  28. 28th May 1957Of 62 students, 28 study French, 39 study German and 9 study both. How many study neither?
  29. 29th May 1957Work out (72 x 10^7) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  30. 30th May 1957A line has equation y = 3x - 9. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  31. 31st May 1957A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 2 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?

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