Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 1972 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1972
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1972Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 7 : 9. There are 84 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 2nd January 1972A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 14 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 3rd January 1972A bag holds 2 red and 10 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 4th January 1972A scatter graph plots how far a lorry has driven and the fuel left in its tank. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 5th January 1972A meal deal has 5 mains, 6 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 6th January 1972The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 7th January 1972A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 8th January 1972Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 9th January 1972A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 10th January 1972Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 10 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 11, 16, 21, 7, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 11th January 1972A bill is £336 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 12th January 1972Expand and simplify 8(8x + 3).
- 13th January 1972A pack of 9 teabags costs £3.60. A pack of 36 costs £12.24. Which pack is better value?
- 14th January 1972The bearing of B from A is 248°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 15th January 1972A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th January 1972Of 67 students, 36 study French, 32 study German and 10 study both. How many study neither?
- 17th January 1972Work out (12 x 10^6) / (2 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 18th January 1972A line has equation y = 5x - 25. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 19th January 1972Work out 40% of 120.
- 20th January 1972A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 6 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 21st January 1972A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 22nd January 1972In a survey 7 households own 1 car, 8 own 2 cars and 7 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 23rd January 1972A meal deal has 5 mains, 5 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 24th January 1972Solve 5(x + 8) = 95.
- 25th January 1972Write the ratio 5 : 25 in the form 1 : n.
- 26th January 1972A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 16 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 27th January 1972A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 28th January 1972A box plot has a minimum of 16 and a maximum of 46. Work out the range.
- 29th January 1972A bill is £168 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 30th January 1972Use v = u + at with u = 14, a = 6 and t = 8. Work out v.
- 31st January 1972A coach travels 40 km in 1 hour, then 60 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.