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August 1977

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st August 1977A line has gradient 3 and passes through (3, 16). Work out its equation.
  2. 2nd August 1977Write the ratio 5 : 35 in the form 1 : n.
  3. 3rd August 1977A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 12 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
  4. 4th August 1977A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  5. 5th August 1977A box plot has minimum 12, lower quartile 20, median 23, upper quartile 32 and maximum 37. Work out the interquartile range.
  6. 6th August 1977A bill is £192 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  7. 7th August 1977Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 5.
  8. 8th August 1977A coach travels 60 km in 1 hour, then 80 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  9. 9th August 1977Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 92°, 137° and 72°. Work out the fourth.
  10. 10th August 1977A bag holds 3 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  11. 11th August 1977A scatter graph plots a pupil's height and their score in a spelling test. What type of correlation would you expect?
  12. 12th August 1977Work out (21 x 10^11) / (7 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  13. 13th August 1977The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 80)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  14. 14th August 1977Anika drives 160 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  15. 15th August 1977A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 10 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 18 cm long. Work out its volume.
  16. 16th August 1977A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  17. 17th August 1977Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 10 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 3, 11, 16, 7, 21. Write down the modal class.
  18. 18th August 1977A meal deal has 7 mains, 3 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  19. 19th August 1977Expand and simplify 3(4x - 4).
  20. 20th August 1977Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 4 : 9. There are 40 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
  21. 21st August 1977Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
  22. 22nd August 1977A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  23. 23rd August 1977Of 52 students, 29 study French, 20 study German and 13 study both. How many study neither?
  24. 24th August 1977A bill is £168 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  25. 25th August 1977A line has equation y = 6x - 18. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  26. 26th August 1977A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 9 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
  27. 27th August 1977The bearing of B from A is 102°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  28. 28th August 1977A bag holds 7 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  29. 29th August 1977In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 6 own 2 cars and 7 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  30. 30th August 1977Work out (32 x 10^9) / (8 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  31. 31st August 1977Solve 7(x + 8) = 91.

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