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May 1983 5-a-day

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May 1983

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st May 1983Work out (72 x 10^8) / (8 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  2. 2nd May 1983Factorise x^2 - 4x - 21.
  3. 3rd May 1983Write the ratio 7 : 28 in the form 1 : n.
  4. 4th May 1983A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 24 cm and height 7 cm. The prism is 13 cm long. Work out its volume.
  5. 5th May 1983A bag holds 2 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  6. 6th May 1983A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 64 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
  7. 7th May 1983A meal deal has 7 mains, 8 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  8. 8th May 1983Does the point (5, 5) satisfy y > 2x - 7?
  9. 9th May 1983A coach travels 90 km in 1 hour, then 20 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  10. 10th May 1983Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
  11. 11th May 1983A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  12. 12th May 1983160 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. 30 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  13. 13th May 1983A bill is £168 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  14. 14th May 1983A line has gradient 5 and passes through (1, 8). Work out its equation.
  15. 15th May 1983Maeve drives 125 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  16. 16th May 1983The bearing of B from A is 045°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  17. 17th May 1983A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  18. 18th May 1983A box plot has minimum 11, lower quartile 13, median 16, upper quartile 23 and maximum 25. Work out the interquartile range.
  19. 19th May 1983Work out (48 x 10^10) / (6 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  20. 20th May 1983Make x the subject of y = 2x^2 - 12.
  21. 21st May 1983Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 3 : 5. There are 36 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
  22. 22nd May 1983A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 10 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  23. 23rd May 1983A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  24. 24th May 1983A scatter graph plots the length of a queue and the number of tills open. What type of correlation would you expect?
  25. 25th May 1983A meal deal has 5 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  26. 26th May 1983The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 130)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  27. 27th May 1983A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 7 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
  28. 28th May 1983A trapezium has parallel sides of 8 cm and 16 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
  29. 29th May 1983A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  30. 30th May 1983Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 10 < x <= 15. The frequencies in order are 16, 21, 7, 3, 11. Write down the modal class.
  31. 31st May 1983A bill is £744 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.

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