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January 1985 5-a-day
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- 1st January 1985A box plot has minimum 14, lower quartile 17, median 25, upper quartile 31 and maximum 36. Work out the interquartile range.
- 2nd January 1985Work out (15 x 10^12) / (3 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 3rd January 1985Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 2.
- 4th January 1985A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 11 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 5th January 1985A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 20 cm and height 13 cm. The prism is 11 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 6th January 1985A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th January 1985A scatter graph plots a house's floor area and its asking price. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 8th January 1985A meal deal has 7 mains, 5 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 9th January 1985The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 26)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 10th January 1985A pack of 4 pencils costs £1.20. A pack of 16 costs £4.32. Which pack is better value?
- 11th January 1985Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 12th January 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 13th January 1985Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 0 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 3, 7, 11, 21, 16. Write down the modal class.
- 14th January 1985A bill is £600 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 15th January 1985Expand and simplify 2(6x + 1).
- 16th January 1985Work out 40% of 220.
- 17th January 1985The bearing of B from A is 341°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 18th January 1985A bag holds 9 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th January 1985Of 69 students, 38 study French, 36 study German and 11 study both. How many study neither?
- 20th January 1985Work out (4 x 10^12) / (2 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 21st January 1985A line has equation y = 3x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 22nd January 1985Write the ratio 3 : 21 in the form 1 : n.
- 23rd January 1985A 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 January 1985A bag holds 5 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th January 1985In a survey 2 households own 1 car, 6 own 2 cars and 5 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 26th January 1985A meal deal has 5 mains, 3 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 27th January 1985Solve 4(x - 5) = 28.
- 28th January 1985A coach travels 80 km in 0.5 hours, then 50 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 29th January 1985A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 19 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 30th January 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st January 1985A box plot has a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 30. Work out the range.