Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 1979 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1979
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- 1st January 1979A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 12 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 17 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 2nd January 1979A bag holds 2 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 3rd January 1979A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 192 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 4th January 1979A meal deal has 9 mains, 4 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 5th January 1979Does the point (4, 16) satisfy y > x + 6?
- 6th January 1979Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 2 : 5. There are 12 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 7th January 1979Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 8th January 1979A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 9th January 1979100 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 20 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 10th January 1979A bill is £48 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 11th January 1979A line has gradient 3 and passes through (6, 13). Work out its equation.
- 12th January 1979A 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?
- 13th January 1979The bearing of B from A is 212°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 14th January 1979A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th January 1979A box plot has minimum 8, lower quartile 11, median 19, upper quartile 26 and maximum 33. Work out the interquartile range.
- 16th January 1979Work out (10 x 10^7) / (2 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 17th January 1979Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 3.
- 18th January 1979A pack of 8 pencils costs £4.00. A pack of 24 costs £10.80. Which pack is better value?
- 19th January 1979A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 3 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 20th January 1979A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 21st January 1979A scatter graph plots how far a lorry has driven and the fuel left in its tank. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 22nd January 1979A meal deal has 9 mains, 8 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 23rd January 1979The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 19)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 24th January 1979Work out 5% of 80.
- 25th January 1979A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 14 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 26th January 1979A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 27th January 1979Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 30 < x <= 40. The frequencies in order are 3, 7, 11, 21, 16. Write down the modal class.
- 28th January 1979A bill is £456 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 29th January 1979Expand and simplify 9(8x + 1).
- 30th January 1979Write the ratio 4 : 12 in the form 1 : n.
- 31st January 1979Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 114°, 65° and 136°. Work out the fourth.