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October 1966

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st October 1966A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  2. 2nd October 1966A box plot has minimum 3, lower quartile 7, median 17, upper quartile 22 and maximum 32. Work out the interquartile range.
  3. 3rd October 1966A bill is £528 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  4. 4th October 1966Make x the subject of y = 3x^2 - 4.
  5. 5th October 1966Work out 40% of 160.
  6. 6th October 1966Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 115°, 100° and 64°. Work out the fourth.
  7. 7th October 1966A bag holds 5 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  8. 8th October 1966A scatter graph plots the height of a tree and its age. What type of correlation would you expect?
  9. 9th October 1966Work out (12 x 10^8) / (2 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  10. 10th October 1966The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 50)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  11. 11th October 1966Write the ratio 8 : 32 in the form 1 : n.
  12. 12th October 1966A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 14 cm and height 9 cm. The prism is 12 cm long. Work out its volume.
  13. 13th October 1966A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  14. 14th October 1966Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 0 < x <= 5. The frequencies in order are 3, 16, 21, 11, 7. Write down the modal class.
  15. 15th October 1966A meal deal has 9 mains, 5 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  16. 16th October 1966Expand and simplify 5(9x - 4).
  17. 17th October 1966A coach travels 70 km in 0.5 hours, then 50 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  18. 18th October 1966Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
  19. 19th October 1966A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  20. 20th October 1966Of 59 students, 17 study French, 27 study German and 3 study both. How many study neither?
  21. 21st October 1966A bill is £480 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  22. 22nd October 1966A line has equation y = 5x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  23. 23rd October 1966Kwame drives 135 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  24. 24th October 1966The bearing of B from A is 007°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  25. 25th October 1966A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  26. 26th October 1966In a survey 8 households own 1 car, 4 own 2 cars and 5 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  27. 27th October 1966Work out (32 x 10^8) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  28. 28th October 1966Solve 2(x - 2) = 6.
  29. 29th October 1966Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 7 : 9. There are 70 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
  30. 30th October 1966A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  31. 31st October 1966A bag holds 6 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.

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