Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 1981 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1981A 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?
- 2nd May 1981A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 21 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 3rd May 1981A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 4th May 198155 beetles are marked and released. Later 84 are caught, of which 7 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 5th May 1981A bill is £216 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 6th May 1981Factorise x^2 - 8x + 12.
- 7th May 1981A pack of 11 pencils costs £4.95. A pack of 44 costs £17.60. Which pack is better value?
- 8th May 1981Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 108°, 77° and 106°. Work out the fourth.
- 9th May 1981A bag holds 7 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th May 1981A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 76 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 11th May 1981Work out (81 x 10^8) / (9 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 12th May 1981Does the point (5, -7) satisfy y > -x - 6?
- 13th May 1981Work out 25% of 360.
- 14th May 1981A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 24 cm and height 7 cm. The prism is 19 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 15th May 1981A bag holds 7 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th May 1981180 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 40 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 17th May 1981A meal deal has 6 mains, 8 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 18th May 1981A line has gradient -4 and passes through (3, -11). Work out its equation.
- 19th May 1981Write the ratio 7 : 56 in the form 1 : n.
- 20th May 1981Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 21st May 1981A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 22nd May 1981A box plot has minimum 1, lower quartile 6, median 11, upper quartile 21 and maximum 27. Work out the interquartile range.
- 23rd May 1981A bill is £960 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 24th May 1981Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 10.
- 25th May 1981A coach travels 80 km in 0.5 hours, then 50 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 26th May 1981The bearing of B from A is 005°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 27th May 1981A bag holds 5 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th May 1981A scatter graph plots the height of a tree and its age. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 29th May 1981Work out (4 x 10^12) / (2 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 30th May 1981The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 54)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 31st May 1981Yusuf drives 160 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.