Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 1973 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1973
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1973A coach travels 90 km in 0.5 hours, then 40 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 2nd January 1973Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 3rd January 1973A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 4th January 1973Four classes in order have frequencies 10, 12, 8, 12. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 5th January 1973A bill is £96 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 6th January 1973For the curve y = 20/x, work out y when x = 2, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 7th January 1973Callum drives 112.5 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 8th January 1973The bearing of B from A is 320°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 9th January 1973A bag holds 6 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th January 197355 beetles are marked and released. Later 81 are caught, of which 9 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 11th January 1973Work out (15 x 10^8) / (3 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 12th January 1973Factorise x^2 - 8x - 9.
- 13th January 1973Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 2 : 5. There are 12 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 14th January 1973A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 11 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 15th January 1973A bag holds 3 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th January 1973A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 92 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 17th January 1973A meal deal has 9 mains, 6 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 18th January 1973Does the point (-3, 1) satisfy y > 3x + 2?
- 19th January 1973A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 5.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 20th January 1973A trapezium has parallel sides of 14 cm and 19 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 21st January 1973A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 22nd January 197380 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. -5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 23rd January 1973A bill is £768 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 24th January 1973A line has gradient -2 and passes through (2, -1). Work out its equation.
- 25th January 1973A pack of 7 batteries costs £3.50. A pack of 14 costs £6.16. Which pack is better value?
- 26th January 1973Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 54°, 42° and 208°. Work out the fourth.
- 27th January 1973A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th January 1973A box plot has minimum 10, lower quartile 18, median 21, upper quartile 23 and maximum 28. Work out the interquartile range.
- 29th January 1973Work out (49 x 10^9) / (7 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 30th January 1973Make x the subject of y = 3x^2 - 5.
- 31st January 1973Work out 20% of 340.