Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 1985 5-a-day
Printing for a group?
The batch download puts all 5 tiers' May 1985 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in May 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1985A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 240 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 2nd May 1985A bill is £912 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 3rd May 1985Does the point (-2, 10) satisfy y > -4x - 5?
- 4th May 1985Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 2 : 9. There are 18 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 5th May 1985The bearing of B from A is 104°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 6th May 1985A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 7th May 1985110 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 35 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 8th May 1985Work out (15 x 10^12) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 9th May 1985A line has gradient -3 and passes through (1, 2). Work out its equation.
- 10th May 1985A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 5.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 11th May 1985A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 11 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 12th May 1985A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 13th May 1985A box plot has minimum 15, lower quartile 25, median 27, upper quartile 35 and maximum 38. Work out the interquartile range.
- 14th May 1985A meal deal has 9 mains, 5 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 15th May 1985Make x the subject of y = 6x^2 - 3.
- 16th May 1985A pack of 6 batteries costs £1.20. A pack of 24 costs £3.60. Which pack is better value?
- 17th May 1985A trapezium has parallel sides of 9 cm and 12 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 18th May 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 19th May 1985A scatter graph plots the number of hours revised and the test mark. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 20th May 1985A bill is £840 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 21st May 1985The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 45)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 22nd May 1985Work out 40% of 340.
- 23rd May 1985Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 136°, 80° and 103°. Work out the fourth.
- 24th May 1985A bag holds 10 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 25th May 1985Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 20 < x <= 30. The frequencies in order are 16, 11, 7, 3, 21. Write down the modal class.
- 26th May 1985Work out (18 x 10^6) / (2 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 27th May 1985Expand and simplify 5(5x - 1).
- 28th May 1985Write the ratio 3 : 21 in the form 1 : n.
- 29th May 1985A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 6 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 19 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 30th May 1985A bag holds 7 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 31st May 1985Of 68 students, 22 study French, 30 study German and 3 study both. How many study neither?