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March 1985 5-a-day
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- 1st March 1985A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 2nd March 198580 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 3rd March 1985A meal deal has 8 mains, 6 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 4th March 1985A line has gradient 5 and passes through (4, 14). Work out its equation.
- 5th March 1985Write the ratio 7 : 14 in the form 1 : n.
- 6th March 1985A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 14 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 7th March 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 8th March 1985A box plot has minimum 5, lower quartile 7, median 13, upper quartile 17 and maximum 27. Work out the interquartile range.
- 9th March 1985A bill is £216 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 10th March 1985Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 2.
- 11th March 1985A coach travels 60 km in 1 hour, then 20 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 12th March 1985Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 85°, 76° and 148°. Work out the fourth.
- 13th March 1985A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 14th March 1985A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of hot drinks sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 15th March 1985Work out (9 x 10^9) / (3 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 16th March 1985The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 50)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 17th March 1985Anika drives 150 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 18th March 1985A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 8 cm and height 8 cm. The prism is 5 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 19th March 1985A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 20th March 1985Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 0 < x <= 5. The frequencies in order are 11, 21, 16, 7, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 21st March 1985A meal deal has 7 mains, 6 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 22nd March 1985Expand and simplify 8(5x + 4).
- 23rd March 1985Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 2 : 9. There are 18 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 24th March 1985Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
- 25th March 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 26th March 1985Of 61 students, 25 study French, 35 study German and 15 study both. How many study neither?
- 27th March 1985A bill is £744 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 28th March 1985A line has equation y = 3x - 3. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 29th March 1985A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 12 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 30th March 1985The bearing of B from A is 204°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 31st March 1985A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.