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October 1973 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1973
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 197310 newts are marked and released. Later 35 are caught, of which 5 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 2nd October 1973A bill is £576 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 3rd October 1973Factorise x^2 + 9x + 20.
- 4th October 1973A pack of 10 sponges costs £2.50. A pack of 20 costs £4.00. Which pack is better value?
- 5th October 1973Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 61°, 66° and 156°. Work out the fourth.
- 6th October 1973A bag holds 4 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th October 1973A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 52 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 8th October 1973Work out (32 x 10^12) / (4 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 9th October 1973Does the point (5, -22) satisfy y > -4x + 1?
- 10th October 1973Work out 60% of 100.
- 11th October 1973A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 12 cm and height 6 cm. The prism is 15 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 12th October 1973A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 13th October 1973190 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 35 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 14th October 1973A meal deal has 9 mains, 7 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 15th October 1973A line has gradient -4 and passes through (4, -18). Work out its equation.
- 16th October 1973Write the ratio 3 : 18 in the form 1 : n.
- 17th October 1973Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 18th October 1973A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 19th October 1973A box plot has minimum 2, lower quartile 6, median 9, upper quartile 15 and maximum 24. Work out the interquartile range.
- 20th October 1973A bill is £936 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 21st October 1973Make x the subject of y = 3x^2 - 3.
- 22nd October 1973A coach travels 80 km in 1.5 hours, then 40 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 23rd October 1973The bearing of B from A is 021°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 24th October 1973A bag holds 3 red and 8 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th October 1973A scatter graph plots a pupil's height and their score in a spelling test. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 26th October 1973Work out (12 x 10^10) / (2 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 27th October 1973The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 42)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 28th October 1973Tomasz drives 112.5 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 29th October 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.
- 30th October 1973A bag holds 9 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 31st October 1973Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 10 < x <= 15. The frequencies in order are 11, 7, 16, 21, 3. Write down the modal class.