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October 1972

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st October 1972A meal deal has 5 mains, 3 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  2. 2nd October 1972Expand and simplify 4(3x - 2).
  3. 3rd October 1972Write the ratio 2 : 18 in the form 1 : n.
  4. 4th October 1972A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 6 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
  5. 5th October 1972A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  6. 6th October 1972Of 45 students, 17 study French, 36 study German and 11 study both. How many study neither?
  7. 7th October 1972A bill is £72 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  8. 8th October 1972A line has equation y = 5x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  9. 9th October 1972A coach travels 60 km in 1.5 hours, then 70 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  10. 10th October 1972Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 122°, 108° and 45°. Work out the fourth.
  11. 11th October 1972A bag holds 9 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  12. 12th October 1972In a survey 5 households own 1 car, 4 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  13. 13th October 1972Work out (10 x 10^10) / (2 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  14. 14th October 1972Solve 6(x - 2) = 6.
  15. 15th October 1972Erin drives 100 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  16. 16th October 1972A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 24 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 13 cm long. Work out its volume.
  17. 17th October 1972A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  18. 18th October 1972A box plot has a minimum of 17 and a maximum of 39. Work out the range.
  19. 19th October 1972A meal deal has 5 mains, 3 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  20. 20th October 1972Use v = u + at with u = 11, a = 6 and t = 8. Work out v.
  21. 21st October 1972Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 3 : 4. There are 15 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
  22. 22nd October 1972Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
  23. 23rd October 1972A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  24. 24th October 1972A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 5x + 16. Use it to estimate y when x = 12.
  25. 25th October 1972A bill is £768 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  26. 26th October 19723 teas and 2 cakes cost £11.30. 3 teas and 3 cakes cost £13.95. Find the price of a tea.
  27. 27th October 1972A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 4 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
  28. 28th October 1972The bearing of B from A is 043°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  29. 29th October 1972A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  30. 30th October 1972Four classes in order have frequencies 5, 11, 4, 7. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
  31. 31st October 1972Work out (36 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.

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