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January 1959 5-a-day

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January 1959

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st January 1959A meal deal has 5 mains, 4 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  2. 2nd January 1959The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 3x° and (x + 48)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  3. 3rd January 1959Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 2 : 7. There are 24 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
  4. 4th January 1959Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
  5. 5th January 1959A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  6. 6th January 1959Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 0 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 16, 7, 21, 3, 11. Write down the modal class.
  7. 7th January 1959A bill is £576 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  8. 8th January 1959Expand and simplify 9(4x + 9).
  9. 9th January 1959A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 3 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
  10. 10th January 1959The bearing of B from A is 183°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  11. 11th January 1959A bag holds 6 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  12. 12th January 1959Of 64 students, 20 study French, 34 study German and 4 study both. How many study neither?
  13. 13th January 1959Work out (15 x 10^7) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
  14. 14th January 1959A line has equation y = 6x - 18. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  15. 15th January 1959A pack of 11 batteries costs £5.50. A pack of 22 costs £10.78. Which pack is better value?
  16. 16th January 1959A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  17. 17th January 1959A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  18. 18th January 1959In a survey 8 households own 1 car, 6 own 2 cars and 7 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  19. 19th January 1959A meal deal has 7 mains, 5 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  20. 20th January 1959Solve 3(x + 3) = 36.
  21. 21st January 1959Work out 60% of 280.
  22. 22nd January 1959A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 18 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
  23. 23rd January 1959A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  24. 24th January 1959A box plot has a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 62. Work out the range.
  25. 25th January 1959A bill is £144 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  26. 26th January 1959Use v = u + at with u = 3, a = 2 and t = 7. Work out v.
  27. 27th January 1959Write the ratio 7 : 28 in the form 1 : n.
  28. 28th January 1959Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 72°, 137° and 90°. Work out the fourth.
  29. 29th January 1959A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  30. 30th January 1959A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 4x + 25. Use it to estimate y when x = 2.
  31. 31st January 1959Work out (25 x 10^7) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.

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