Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
September 1985 5-a-day
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Every sheet in September 1985
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- 1st September 1985Hassan drives 180 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 2nd September 1985A trapezium has parallel sides of 12 cm and 23 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 3rd September 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 4th September 198525 voles are marked and released. Later 36 are caught, of which 3 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 5th September 1985A bill is £168 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 6th September 1985Factorise x^2 - 13x + 42.
- 7th September 1985Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 4 : 9. There are 28 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 8th September 1985Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 80°, 58° and 64°. Work out the fourth.
- 9th September 1985A bag holds 9 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th September 1985A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 208 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 11th September 1985Work out (6 x 10^12) / (2 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 12th September 1985Does the point (5, 1) satisfy y > -x + 8?
- 13th September 1985A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 4.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 14th September 1985A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 10 cm and height 4 cm. The prism is 16 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 15th September 1985A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th September 1985240 people were surveyed. 50 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 85 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 17th September 1985A meal deal has 3 mains, 3 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 18th September 1985A line has gradient 5 and passes through (5, 21). Work out its equation.
- 19th September 1985A pack of 9 pencils costs £4.05. A pack of 36 costs £14.04. Which pack is better value?
- 20th September 1985Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 21st September 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 22nd September 1985A box plot has minimum 7, lower quartile 17, median 19, upper quartile 26 and maximum 30. Work out the interquartile range.
- 23rd September 1985A bill is £720 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 24th September 1985Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 9.
- 25th September 1985Work out 10% of 380.
- 26th September 1985The bearing of B from A is 243°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 27th September 1985A bag holds 6 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th September 1985A scatter graph plots the number of hours revised and the test mark. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 29th September 1985Work out (63 x 10^9) / (9 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 30th September 1985The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 76)°. Form an equation and work out x.