Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 1959 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1959A meal deal has 5 mains, 4 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 2nd January 1959The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 3x° and (x + 48)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 3rd January 1959Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 2 : 7. There are 24 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 4th January 1959Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 5th January 1959A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 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.
- 7th January 1959A bill is £576 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 8th January 1959Expand and simplify 9(4x + 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?
- 10th January 1959The bearing of B from A is 183°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 11th January 1959A bag holds 6 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th January 1959Of 64 students, 20 study French, 34 study German and 4 study both. How many study neither?
- 13th January 1959Work out (15 x 10^7) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 14th January 1959A line has equation y = 6x - 18. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 15th January 1959A pack of 11 batteries costs £5.50. A pack of 22 costs £10.78. Which pack is better value?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 19th January 1959A meal deal has 7 mains, 5 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 20th January 1959Solve 3(x + 3) = 36.
- 21st January 1959Work out 60% of 280.
- 22nd January 1959A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 18 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 23rd January 1959A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 24th January 1959A box plot has a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 62. Work out the range.
- 25th January 1959A bill is £144 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 26th January 1959Use v = u + at with u = 3, a = 2 and t = 7. Work out v.
- 27th January 1959Write the ratio 7 : 28 in the form 1 : n.
- 28th January 1959Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 72°, 137° and 90°. Work out the fourth.
- 29th January 1959A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th January 1959A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 4x + 25. Use it to estimate y when x = 2.
- 31st January 1959Work out (25 x 10^7) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.