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January 1985

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st January 1985A box plot has minimum 14, lower quartile 17, median 25, upper quartile 31 and maximum 36. Work out the interquartile range.
  2. 2nd January 1985Work out (15 x 10^12) / (3 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  3. 3rd January 1985Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 2.
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 7th January 1985A scatter graph plots a house's floor area and its asking price. What type of correlation would you expect?
  8. 8th January 1985A meal deal has 7 mains, 5 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  9. 9th January 1985The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 26)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  10. 10th January 1985A pack of 4 pencils costs £1.20. A pack of 16 costs £4.32. Which pack is better value?
  11. 11th January 1985Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
  12. 12th January 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  13. 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.
  14. 14th January 1985A bill is £600 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  15. 15th January 1985Expand and simplify 2(6x + 1).
  16. 16th January 1985Work out 40% of 220.
  17. 17th January 1985The bearing of B from A is 341°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  18. 18th January 1985A bag holds 9 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  19. 19th January 1985Of 69 students, 38 study French, 36 study German and 11 study both. How many study neither?
  20. 20th January 1985Work out (4 x 10^12) / (2 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
  21. 21st January 1985A line has equation y = 3x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  22. 22nd January 1985Write the ratio 3 : 21 in the form 1 : n.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 26th January 1985A meal deal has 5 mains, 3 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  27. 27th January 1985Solve 4(x - 5) = 28.
  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.
  29. 29th January 1985A trapezium has parallel sides of 11 cm and 19 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
  30. 30th January 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  31. 31st January 1985A box plot has a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 30. Work out the range.

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