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March 1985

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 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.
  2. 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?
  3. 3rd March 1985A meal deal has 8 mains, 6 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  4. 4th March 1985A line has gradient 5 and passes through (4, 14). Work out its equation.
  5. 5th March 1985Write the ratio 7 : 14 in the form 1 : n.
  6. 6th March 1985A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 14 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
  7. 7th March 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  8. 8th March 1985A box plot has minimum 5, lower quartile 7, median 13, upper quartile 17 and maximum 27. Work out the interquartile range.
  9. 9th March 1985A bill is £216 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  10. 10th March 1985Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 2.
  11. 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.
  12. 12th March 1985Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 85°, 76° and 148°. Work out the fourth.
  13. 13th March 1985A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  14. 14th March 1985A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of hot drinks sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
  15. 15th March 1985Work out (9 x 10^9) / (3 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
  16. 16th March 1985The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 50)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  17. 17th March 1985Anika drives 150 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 21st March 1985A meal deal has 7 mains, 6 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  22. 22nd March 1985Expand and simplify 8(5x + 4).
  23. 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?
  24. 24th March 1985Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
  25. 25th March 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  26. 26th March 1985Of 61 students, 25 study French, 35 study German and 15 study both. How many study neither?
  27. 27th March 1985A bill is £744 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  28. 28th March 1985A line has equation y = 3x - 3. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  29. 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?
  30. 30th March 1985The bearing of B from A is 204°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  31. 31st March 1985A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.

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