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August 1981 5-a-day
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- 1st August 1981A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 2nd August 1981A scatter graph plots a house's floor area and its asking price. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 3rd August 1981A bill is £456 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 4th August 1981The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 112)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 5th August 1981Work out 25% of 240.
- 6th August 1981The bearing of B from A is 238°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 7th August 1981A bag holds 8 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 8th August 1981Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 20 < x <= 25. The frequencies in order are 11, 7, 21, 16, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 9th August 1981Work out (56 x 10^12) / (8 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 10th August 1981Expand and simplify 7(6x - 6).
- 11th August 1981Write the ratio 2 : 16 in the form 1 : n.
- 12th August 1981A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 9 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 13th August 1981A bag holds 7 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 14th August 1981Of 49 students, 32 study French, 20 study German and 5 study both. How many study neither?
- 15th August 1981A meal deal has 6 mains, 4 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 16th August 1981A line has equation y = 4x - 4. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 17th August 1981A coach travels 30 km in 1 hour, then 20 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 18th August 1981A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 16 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 19th August 1981A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 20th August 1981In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 7 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 21st August 1981A bill is £552 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 22nd August 1981Solve 7(x - 1) = 21.
- 23rd August 1981Tomasz drives 180 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 24th August 1981Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 131°, 75° and 56°. Work out the fourth.
- 25th August 1981A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 26th August 1981A box plot has a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 51. Work out the range.
- 27th August 1981Work out (81 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 28th August 1981Use v = u + at with u = 8, a = 3 and t = 2. Work out v.
- 29th August 1981Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 3 : 4. There are 30 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 30th August 1981A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 24 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 14 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 31st August 1981A bag holds 7 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.