Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
October 1977 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1977
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1977Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 3 : 5. There are 36 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 2nd October 1977The bearing of B from A is 226°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 3rd October 1977A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 4th October 1977200 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 50 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 5th October 1977Work out (18 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 6th October 1977A line has gradient -5 and passes through (5, -21). Work out its equation.
- 7th October 1977A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 9.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 8th October 1977A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 3 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 9th October 1977A bag holds 8 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th October 1977A box plot has minimum 3, lower quartile 13, median 17, upper quartile 21 and maximum 28. Work out the interquartile range.
- 11th October 1977A meal deal has 4 mains, 6 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 12th October 1977Make x the subject of y = 3x^2 - 2.
- 13th October 1977A pack of 9 sponges costs £3.60. A pack of 18 costs £6.48. Which pack is better value?
- 14th October 1977A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 10 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 15th October 1977A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 16th October 1977A scatter graph plots a pupil's height and their score in a spelling test. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 17th October 1977A bill is £672 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 18th October 1977The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 19th October 1977Work out 25% of 260.
- 20th October 1977Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 105°, 61° and 79°. Work out the fourth.
- 21st October 1977A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 22nd October 1977Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 10 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 16, 11, 21, 7, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 23rd October 1977Work out (4 x 10^11) / (2 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 24th October 1977Expand and simplify 2(3x - 6).
- 25th October 1977Write the ratio 4 : 16 in the form 1 : n.
- 26th October 1977A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 24 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 8 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 27th October 1977A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th October 1977Of 64 students, 32 study French, 28 study German and 9 study both. How many study neither?
- 29th October 1977A meal deal has 4 mains, 4 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 30th October 1977A line has equation y = 2x - 4. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 31st October 1977A coach travels 90 km in 0.5 hours, then 30 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.