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January 1981

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st January 1981A pack of 10 pencils costs £2.00. A pack of 30 costs £5.10. Which pack is better value?
  2. 2nd January 1981The bearing of B from A is 032°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  3. 3rd January 1981A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  4. 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?
  5. 5th January 1981Work out (10 x 10^11) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
  6. 6th January 1981A line has gradient -1 and passes through (5, -13). Work out its equation.
  7. 7th January 1981Work out 15% of 240.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 10th January 1981A box plot has minimum 15, lower quartile 18, median 26, upper quartile 34 and maximum 42. Work out the interquartile range.
  11. 11th January 1981A meal deal has 7 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  12. 12th January 1981Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 12.
  13. 13th January 1981Write the ratio 2 : 18 in the form 1 : n.
  14. 14th January 1981A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 12 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
  15. 15th January 1981A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  16. 16th January 1981A scatter graph plots the height of a tree and its age. What type of correlation would you expect?
  17. 17th January 1981A bill is £240 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  18. 18th January 1981The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 85)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  19. 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.
  20. 20th January 1981Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 47°, 58° and 198°. Work out the fourth.
  21. 21st January 1981A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  22. 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.
  23. 23rd January 1981Work out (18 x 10^11) / (6 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
  24. 24th January 1981Expand and simplify 9(5x + 9).
  25. 25th January 1981Oliwia drives 100 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 28th January 1981Of 68 students, 41 study French, 27 study German and 13 study both. How many study neither?
  29. 29th January 1981A meal deal has 4 mains, 5 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  30. 30th January 1981A line has equation y = 6x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  31. 31st January 1981Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 5 : 9. There are 30 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?

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