Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 1981 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1981A pack of 10 pencils costs £2.00. A pack of 30 costs £5.10. Which pack is better value?
- 2nd January 1981The bearing of B from A is 032°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 3rd January 1981A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 4th January 1981170 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 10 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 5th January 1981Work out (10 x 10^11) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 6th January 1981A line has gradient -1 and passes through (5, -13). Work out its equation.
- 7th January 1981Work out 15% of 240.
- 8th January 1981A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 9th January 1981A bag holds 3 red and 8 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th January 1981A box plot has minimum 15, lower quartile 18, median 26, upper quartile 34 and maximum 42. Work out the interquartile range.
- 11th January 1981A meal deal has 7 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 12th January 1981Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 12.
- 13th January 1981Write the ratio 2 : 18 in the form 1 : n.
- 14th January 1981A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 12 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 15th January 1981A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 16th January 1981A scatter graph plots the height of a tree and its age. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 17th January 1981A bill is £240 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 18th January 1981The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 85)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 19th January 1981A coach travels 40 km in 1.5 hours, then 90 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 20th January 1981Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 47°, 58° and 198°. Work out the fourth.
- 21st January 1981A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 22nd January 1981Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 10 < x <= 15. The frequencies in order are 7, 11, 21, 3, 16. Write down the modal class.
- 23rd January 1981Work out (18 x 10^11) / (6 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 24th January 1981Expand and simplify 9(5x + 9).
- 25th January 1981Oliwia drives 100 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 26th January 1981A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 14 cm and height 9 cm. The prism is 19 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 27th January 1981A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th January 1981Of 68 students, 41 study French, 27 study German and 13 study both. How many study neither?
- 29th January 1981A meal deal has 4 mains, 5 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 30th January 1981A line has equation y = 6x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 31st January 1981Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 9. There are 30 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?