Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 1979 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1979The bearing of B from A is 225°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 2nd May 1979A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 3rd May 1979Four classes in order have frequencies 11, 4, 3, 4. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 4th May 1979Work out (72 x 10^12) / (9 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 5th May 1979For the curve y = 3/x, work out y when x = -1, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 6th May 1979Yusuf drives 60 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 7th May 1979A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 9 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 8th May 1979A bag holds 2 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 9th May 197960 fish are marked and released. Later 88 are caught, of which 8 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 10th May 1979A meal deal has 4 mains, 8 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 11th May 1979Factorise x^2 - 9x + 8.
- 12th May 1979Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 4 : 5. There are 16 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 13th May 1979A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 19 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 14th May 1979A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 15th May 1979A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 48 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 16th May 1979A bill is £600 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 17th May 1979Does the point (-4, -1) satisfy y > x + 2?
- 18th May 1979A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 5.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 19th May 1979Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 105°, 53° and 103°. Work out the fourth.
- 20th May 1979A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 21st May 1979150 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 25 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 22nd May 1979Work out (63 x 10^7) / (9 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 23rd May 1979A line has gradient 3 and passes through (3, 10). Work out its equation.
- 24th May 1979A pack of 9 sponges costs £1.35. A pack of 18 costs £1.62. Which pack is better value?
- 25th May 1979A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 6 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 5 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 26th May 1979A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 27th May 1979A box plot has minimum 6, lower quartile 16, median 25, upper quartile 30 and maximum 37. Work out the interquartile range.
- 28th May 1979A meal deal has 6 mains, 9 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 29th May 1979Make x the subject of y = 6x^2 - 9.
- 30th May 1979Work out 60% of 260.
- 31st May 1979Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.