Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
October 1979 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1979A meal deal has 7 mains, 6 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 2nd October 1979A line has gradient -2 and passes through (5, -15). Work out its equation.
- 3rd October 1979Work out 30% of 160.
- 4th October 1979A trapezium has parallel sides of 5 cm and 9 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 5th October 1979A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 6th October 1979A box plot has minimum 7, lower quartile 13, median 21, upper quartile 28 and maximum 31. Work out the interquartile range.
- 7th October 1979A bill is £240 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 8th October 1979Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 6.
- 9th October 1979Write the ratio 7 : 63 in the form 1 : n.
- 10th October 1979Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 139°, 62° and 82°. Work out the fourth.
- 11th October 1979A bag holds 3 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th October 1979A scatter graph plots a pupil's height and their score in a spelling test. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 13th October 1979Work out (30 x 10^7) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 14th October 1979The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 89)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 15th October 1979A coach travels 50 km in 1 hour, then 60 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 16th October 1979A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 12 cm and height 4 cm. The prism is 5 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 17th October 1979A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th October 1979Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 15 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 21, 3, 7, 16, 11. Write down the modal class.
- 19th October 1979A meal deal has 5 mains, 7 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 20th October 1979Expand and simplify 5(5x - 1).
- 21st October 1979Ade drives 80 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 22nd October 1979Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 23rd October 1979A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 24th October 1979Of 52 students, 29 study French, 26 study German and 5 study both. How many study neither?
- 25th October 1979A bill is £624 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 26th October 1979A line has equation y = 2x - 6. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 27th October 1979Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 3 : 7. There are 15 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 28th October 1979The bearing of B from A is 308°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 29th October 1979A bag holds 8 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th October 1979In a survey 5 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 31st October 1979Work out (45 x 10^6) / (5 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.