Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
March 1979 5-a-day
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Every sheet in March 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1979A pack of 8 pencils costs £1.60. A pack of 32 costs £5.76. Which pack is better value?
- 2nd March 1979A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 15 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 3rd March 1979A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 4th March 197955 fish are marked and released. Later 36 are caught, of which 9 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 5th March 1979A bill is £600 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 6th March 1979Factorise x^2 + 8x + 16.
- 7th March 1979Work out 10% of 320.
- 8th March 1979Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 101°, 79° and 106°. Work out the fourth.
- 9th March 1979A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th March 1979A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 84 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 11th March 1979Work out (63 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 12th March 1979Does the point (3, -2) satisfy y > x - 8?
- 13th March 1979Write the ratio 4 : 24 in the form 1 : n.
- 14th March 1979A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 18 cm and height 9 cm. The prism is 17 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 15th March 1979A bag holds 2 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th March 197990 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 10 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 17th March 1979A meal deal has 7 mains, 8 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 18th March 1979A line has gradient -2 and passes through (4, -2). Work out its equation.
- 19th March 1979A coach travels 20 km in 1 hour, then 80 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 20th March 1979Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 21st March 1979A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 22nd March 1979A box plot has minimum 3, lower quartile 6, median 14, upper quartile 20 and maximum 23. Work out the interquartile range.
- 23rd March 1979A bill is £552 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 24th March 1979Make x the subject of y = 7x^2 - 11.
- 25th March 1979Rohan drives 280 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 26th March 1979The bearing of B from A is 069°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 27th March 1979A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th March 1979A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of ice creams sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 29th March 1979Work out (81 x 10^8) / (9 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 30th March 1979The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 72)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 31st March 1979Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 2 : 9. There are 28 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?