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January 1970 5-a-day

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January 1970

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st January 1970A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  2. 2nd January 1970A box plot has minimum 11, lower quartile 18, median 24, upper quartile 31 and maximum 36. Work out the interquartile range.
  3. 3rd January 1970A bill is £336 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  4. 4th January 1970Make x the subject of y = 2x^2 - 2.
  5. 5th January 1970A coach travels 40 km in 0.5 hours, then 20 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  6. 6th January 1970Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 124°, 96° and 31°. Work out the fourth.
  7. 7th January 1970A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  8. 8th January 1970A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of hot drinks sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
  9. 9th January 1970Work out (21 x 10^12) / (7 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  10. 10th January 1970The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 114)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  11. 11th January 1970Aisha drives 60 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  12. 12th January 1970A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 10 cm and height 6 cm. The prism is 15 cm long. Work out its volume.
  13. 13th January 1970A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  14. 14th January 1970Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 15 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 3, 16, 7, 21, 11. Write down the modal class.
  15. 15th January 1970A meal deal has 5 mains, 8 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  16. 16th January 1970Expand and simplify 8(6x + 12).
  17. 17th January 1970Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 3 : 7. There are 21 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
  18. 18th January 1970Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
  19. 19th January 1970A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  20. 20th January 1970Of 53 students, 35 study French, 16 study German and 8 study both. How many study neither?
  21. 21st January 1970A bill is £432 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  22. 22nd January 1970A line has equation y = 5x - 5. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  23. 23rd January 1970A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 3.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
  24. 24th January 1970The bearing of B from A is 192°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  25. 25th January 1970A bag holds 4 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  26. 26th January 1970In a survey 4 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 4 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  27. 27th January 1970Work out (32 x 10^12) / (4 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  28. 28th January 1970Solve 6(x - 1) = 60.
  29. 29th January 1970A pack of 8 pencils costs £1.20. A pack of 16 costs £1.60. Which pack is better value?
  30. 30th January 1970A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  31. 31st January 1970A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.

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