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October 1981 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1981A box plot has minimum 13, lower quartile 22, median 32, upper quartile 42 and maximum 47. Work out the interquartile range.
- 2nd October 1981Work out (14 x 10^9) / (2 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 3rd October 1981Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 2.
- 4th October 1981Jacob drives 120 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 5th October 1981A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 10 cm and height 12 cm. The prism is 14 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 6th October 1981A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th October 1981A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of ice creams sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 8th October 1981A meal deal has 7 mains, 8 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 9th October 1981The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 54)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 10th October 1981Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 5 : 7. There are 15 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 11th October 1981Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 12th October 1981A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 13th October 1981Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 0 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 11, 21, 16, 7, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 14th October 1981A bill is £768 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 15th October 1981Expand and simplify 7(6x - 7).
- 16th October 1981A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 15 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 17th October 1981The bearing of B from A is 061°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 18th October 1981A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th October 1981Of 67 students, 34 study French, 36 study German and 15 study both. How many study neither?
- 20th October 1981Work out (28 x 10^10) / (7 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 21st October 1981A line has equation y = 5x - 10. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 22nd October 1981A pack of 8 sponges costs £4.00. A pack of 32 costs £15.04. Which pack is better value?
- 23rd October 1981A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 24th October 1981A bag holds 7 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th October 1981In a survey 2 households own 1 car, 4 own 2 cars and 7 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 26th October 1981A meal deal has 6 mains, 3 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 27th October 1981Solve 2(x - 1) = 10.
- 28th October 1981Work out 60% of 140.
- 29th October 1981A trapezium has parallel sides of 4 cm and 8 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 30th October 1981A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st October 1981A box plot has a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 19. Work out the range.