Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 1980 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1980Write the ratio 6 : 54 in the form 1 : n.
- 2nd January 1980Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 3rd January 1980A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 4th January 1980In a survey 3 households own 1 car, 2 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 5th January 1980A bill is £672 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 6th January 1980Solve 6(x - 2) = 54.
- 7th January 1980A coach travels 30 km in 1 hour, then 20 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 8th January 1980The bearing of B from A is 275°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 9th January 1980A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th January 1980A box plot has a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 33. Work out the range.
- 11th January 1980Work out (18 x 10^11) / (3 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 12th January 1980Use v = u + at with u = 6, a = 9 and t = 6. Work out v.
- 13th January 1980Ade drives 150 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 14th January 1980A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 3 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 15th January 1980A bag holds 8 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th January 1980A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 6x + 38. Use it to estimate y when x = 3.
- 17th January 1980A meal deal has 9 mains, 6 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 18th January 19805 teas and 2 cakes cost £9.50. 3 teas and 5 cakes cost £15.20. Find the price of a tea.
- 19th January 1980Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 8. There are 75 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 20th January 1980A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 10 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 21st January 1980A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 22nd January 1980Four classes in order have frequencies 12, 9, 9, 11. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 23rd January 1980A bill is £720 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 24th January 1980For the curve y = -40/x, work out y when x = -5, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 25th January 1980A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 7 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 26th January 1980Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 102°, 80° and 82°. Work out the fourth.
- 27th January 1980A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th January 198040 fish are marked and released. Later 24 are caught, of which 2 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 29th January 1980Work out (16 x 10^7) / (8 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 30th January 1980Factorise x^2 + 9x + 20.
- 31st January 1980A pack of 8 teabags costs £2.80. A pack of 16 costs £4.64. Which pack is better value?