Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
September 1978 5-a-day
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Every sheet in September 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1978A line has gradient 2 and passes through (2, -5). Work out its equation.
- 2nd September 1978Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 2 : 7. There are 26 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 3rd September 1978A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 16 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 4th September 1978A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 5th September 1978A box plot has minimum 3, lower quartile 8, median 15, upper quartile 21 and maximum 31. Work out the interquartile range.
- 6th September 1978A bill is £648 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 7th September 1978Make x the subject of y = 3x^2 - 9.
- 8th September 1978A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 4.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 9th September 1978Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 124°, 118° and 58°. Work out the fourth.
- 10th September 1978A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 11th September 1978A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of hot drinks sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 12th September 1978Work out (40 x 10^9) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 13th September 1978The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 68)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 14th September 1978A pack of 10 sponges costs £5.00. A pack of 20 costs £9.20. Which pack is better value?
- 15th September 1978A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 8 cm. The prism is 18 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 16th September 1978A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 17th September 1978Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 30 < x <= 40. The frequencies in order are 3, 16, 7, 11, 21. Write down the modal class.
- 18th September 1978A meal deal has 6 mains, 5 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 19th September 1978Expand and simplify 9(6x - 10).
- 20th September 1978Work out 10% of 140.
- 21st September 1978Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 22nd September 1978A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 23rd September 1978Of 42 students, 22 study French, 27 study German and 12 study both. How many study neither?
- 24th September 1978A bill is £384 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 25th September 1978A line has equation y = 2x - 8. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 26th September 1978Write the ratio 6 : 36 in the form 1 : n.
- 27th September 1978The bearing of B from A is 354°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 28th September 1978A bag holds 7 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 29th September 1978In a survey 7 households own 1 car, 2 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 30th September 1978Work out (9 x 10^8) / (3 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.