Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 1978 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1978A bag holds 8 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 2nd January 1978Of 71 students, 34 study French, 33 study German and 8 study both. How many study neither?
- 3rd January 1978Work out (72 x 10^9) / (8 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 4th January 1978A line has equation y = 2x - 8. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 5th January 1978A pack of 8 pencils costs £4.40. A pack of 24 costs £12.48. Which pack is better value?
- 6th January 1978A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 6 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 13 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 7th January 1978A bag holds 2 red and 8 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 8th January 1978In a survey 8 households own 1 car, 5 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 9th January 1978A meal deal has 9 mains, 5 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 10th January 1978Solve 4(x + 8) = 56.
- 11th January 1978Work out 20% of 120.
- 12th January 1978Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 13th January 1978A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 14th January 1978A box plot has a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 42. Work out the range.
- 15th January 1978A bill is £864 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 16th January 1978Use v = u + at with u = 2, a = 9 and t = 4. Work out v.
- 17th January 1978Write the ratio 3 : 6 in the form 1 : n.
- 18th January 1978The bearing of B from A is 118°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 19th January 1978A bag holds 5 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 20th January 1978A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 7x + 32. Use it to estimate y when x = 9.
- 21st January 1978Work out (14 x 10^8) / (7 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 22nd January 19785 teas and 2 cakes cost £10.05. 1 tea and 5 cakes cost £14.20. Find the price of a tea.
- 23rd January 1978A coach travels 60 km in 0.5 hours, then 20 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 24th January 1978A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 25th January 1978A bag holds 2 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 26th January 1978Four classes in order have frequencies 5, 4, 7, 3. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 27th January 1978A meal deal has 8 mains, 3 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 28th January 1978For the curve y = 1/x, work out y when x = -1, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 29th January 1978Aisha drives 200 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 30th January 1978A trapezium has parallel sides of 5 cm and 12 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 31st January 1978A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?