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August 1979 5-a-day
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- 1st August 1979A box plot has minimum 12, lower quartile 19, median 26, upper quartile 34 and maximum 41. Work out the interquartile range.
- 2nd August 1979Work out (35 x 10^12) / (5 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 3rd August 1979Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 9.
- 4th August 1979Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 5 : 6. There are 30 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
- 5th August 1979A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 14 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 9 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 6th August 1979A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th August 1979A scatter graph plots a runner's time for 100 m and the distance they can throw a ball. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 8th August 1979A meal deal has 3 mains, 9 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 9th August 1979The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 82)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 10th August 1979A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 3 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 11th August 1979Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 12th August 1979A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 13th August 1979Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 20 < x <= 30. The frequencies in order are 7, 11, 21, 3, 16. Write down the modal class.
- 14th August 1979A bill is £888 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 15th August 1979Expand and simplify 2(9x + 12).
- 16th August 1979A pack of 10 teabags costs £4.00. A pack of 40 costs £15.60. Which pack is better value?
- 17th August 1979The bearing of B from A is 179°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 18th August 1979A bag holds 5 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th August 1979Of 54 students, 19 study French, 26 study German and 8 study both. How many study neither?
- 20th August 1979Work out (4 x 10^11) / (2 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 21st August 1979A line has equation y = 2x - 8. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 22nd August 1979Work out 10% of 260.
- 23rd August 1979A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 24th August 1979A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th August 1979In a survey 7 households own 1 car, 4 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 26th August 1979A meal deal has 3 mains, 4 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 27th August 1979Solve 7(x - 6) = 28.
- 28th August 1979Write the ratio 3 : 6 in the form 1 : n.
- 29th August 1979A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 23 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 30th August 1979A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st August 1979A box plot has a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 24. Work out the range.