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December 1981

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st December 1981A meal deal has 6 mains, 5 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  2. 2nd December 1981A line has gradient 4 and passes through (5, 18). Work out its equation.
  3. 3rd December 1981A pack of 8 teabags costs £2.80. A pack of 16 costs £4.80. Which pack is better value?
  4. 4th December 1981A trapezium has parallel sides of 8 cm and 15 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
  5. 5th December 1981A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  6. 6th December 1981A box plot has minimum 5, lower quartile 10, median 16, upper quartile 19 and maximum 27. Work out the interquartile range.
  7. 7th December 1981A bill is £192 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  8. 8th December 1981Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 10.
  9. 9th December 1981Work out 60% of 120.
  10. 10th December 1981Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 119°, 76° and 54°. Work out the fourth.
  11. 11th December 1981A bag holds 4 red and 7 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  12. 12th December 1981A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of ice creams sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
  13. 13th December 1981Work out (16 x 10^11) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  14. 14th December 1981The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 132)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  15. 15th December 1981Write the ratio 7 : 35 in the form 1 : n.
  16. 16th December 1981A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 16 cm and height 12 cm. The prism is 16 cm long. Work out its volume.
  17. 17th December 1981A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  18. 18th December 1981Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 40 < x <= 50. The frequencies in order are 3, 7, 16, 21, 11. Write down the modal class.
  19. 19th December 1981A meal deal has 5 mains, 6 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  20. 20th December 1981Expand and simplify 7(2x - 9).
  21. 21st December 1981A coach travels 40 km in 0.5 hours, then 70 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  22. 22nd December 1981Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
  23. 23rd December 1981A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  24. 24th December 1981Of 54 students, 29 study French, 26 study German and 8 study both. How many study neither?
  25. 25th December 1981A bill is £336 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  26. 26th December 1981A line has equation y = 2x - 8. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  27. 27th December 1981Yusuf drives 175 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  28. 28th December 1981The bearing of B from A is 136°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  29. 29th December 1981A bag holds 3 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  30. 30th December 1981In a survey 4 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 7 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  31. 31st December 1981Work out (49 x 10^12) / (7 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.

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