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May 1959 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1959Work out (10 x 10^10) / (2 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 2nd May 1959A line has gradient 3 and passes through (4, 20). Work out its equation.
- 3rd May 1959Ade drives 240 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 4th May 1959A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 5th May 1959A bag holds 2 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 6th May 1959A box plot has minimum 10, lower quartile 16, median 19, upper quartile 29 and maximum 36. Work out the interquartile range.
- 7th May 1959A meal deal has 5 mains, 4 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 8th May 1959Make x the subject of y = 6x^2 - 5.
- 9th May 1959Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 8. There are 35 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 10th May 1959A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 13 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 11th May 1959A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 12th May 1959A scatter graph plots the day of the month and the temperature at noon. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 13th May 1959A bill is £168 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 14th May 1959The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 3x° and (x + 114)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 15th May 1959A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 5.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 16th May 1959Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 87°, 60° and 59°. Work out the fourth.
- 17th May 1959A bag holds 5 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th May 1959Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 0 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 21, 16, 7, 3, 11. Write down the modal class.
- 19th May 1959Work out (30 x 10^12) / (5 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 20th May 1959Expand and simplify 9(6x - 4).
- 21st May 1959A pack of 11 teabags costs £5.50. A pack of 33 costs £14.85. Which pack is better value?
- 22nd May 1959A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 14 cm and height 9 cm. The prism is 15 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 23rd May 1959A bag holds 3 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 24th May 1959Of 71 students, 32 study French, 33 study German and 3 study both. How many study neither?
- 25th May 1959A meal deal has 7 mains, 7 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 26th May 1959A line has equation y = 3x - 15. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 27th May 1959Work out 75% of 240.
- 28th May 1959Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 29th May 1959A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 30th May 1959In a survey 7 households own 1 car, 3 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 31st May 1959A bill is £72 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.