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October 1961 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1961
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1961Mia drives 100 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 2nd October 1961A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 24 cm and height 4 cm. The prism is 14 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 3rd October 1961A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 4th October 1961In a survey 9 households own 1 car, 5 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 5th October 1961A meal deal has 8 mains, 5 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 6th October 1961Solve 6(x - 6) = -24.
- 7th October 1961Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 2 : 9. There are 10 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 8th October 1961Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 9th October 1961A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 10th October 1961A box plot has a minimum of 11 and a maximum of 67. Work out the range.
- 11th October 1961A bill is £432 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 12th October 1961Use v = u + at with u = 11, a = 3 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 13th October 1961A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 6.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 14th October 1961The bearing of B from A is 063°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 15th October 1961A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th October 1961A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 3x + 33. Use it to estimate y when x = 9.
- 17th October 1961Work out (36 x 10^7) / (6 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 18th October 19615 teas and 1 cake cost £7.40. 1 tea and 4 cakes cost £7.75. Find the price of a tea.
- 19th October 1961A pack of 10 pencils costs £6.00. A pack of 40 costs £22.80. Which pack is better value?
- 20th October 1961A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 11 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 21st October 1961A bag holds 9 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 22nd October 1961Four classes in order have frequencies 4, 5, 11, 6. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 23rd October 1961A meal deal has 3 mains, 6 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 24th October 1961For the curve y = 22/x, work out y when x = -2, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 25th October 1961Work out 40% of 100.
- 26th October 1961A trapezium has parallel sides of 14 cm and 21 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 27th October 1961A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 28th October 196150 voles are marked and released. Later 63 are caught, of which 9 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 29th October 1961A bill is £312 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 30th October 1961Factorise x^2 - 10x + 9.
- 31st October 1961Write the ratio 7 : 42 in the form 1 : n.