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October 1959 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1959A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 16 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 2nd October 1959A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 3rd October 1959Of 31 students, 12 study French, 16 study German and 5 study both. How many study neither?
- 4th October 1959A bill is £384 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 5th October 1959A line has equation y = 4x - 20. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 6th October 1959Write the ratio 2 : 4 in the form 1 : n.
- 7th October 1959Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 50°, 117° and 155°. Work out the fourth.
- 8th October 1959A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 9th October 1959In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 6 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 10th October 1959Work out (72 x 10^12) / (9 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 11th October 1959Solve 5(x - 2) = 25.
- 12th October 1959A coach travels 70 km in 1 hour, then 60 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 13th October 1959A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 16 cm and height 7 cm. The prism is 9 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 14th October 1959A bag holds 2 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th October 1959A box plot has a minimum of 19 and a maximum of 54. Work out the range.
- 16th October 1959A meal deal has 5 mains, 9 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 17th October 1959Use v = u + at with u = 4, a = 4 and t = 7. Work out v.
- 18th October 1959Aisha drives 135 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 19th October 1959Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 20th October 1959A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 21st October 1959A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 9x + 29. Use it to estimate y when x = 8.
- 22nd October 1959A bill is £600 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 23rd October 19593 teas and 4 cakes cost £10.40. 4 teas and 2 cakes cost £7.20. Find the price of a tea.
- 24th October 1959Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 7 : 9. There are 21 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 25th October 1959The bearing of B from A is 353°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 26th October 1959A bag holds 3 red and 8 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 27th October 1959Four classes in order have frequencies 9, 4, 11, 12. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 28th October 1959Work out (42 x 10^7) / (6 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 29th October 1959For the curve y = 55/x, work out y when x = -5, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 30th October 1959A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 6 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 31st October 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.