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December 1985 5-a-day
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Every sheet in December 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1985Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 2nd December 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 3rd December 1985A scatter graph plots a runner's time for 100 m and the distance they can throw a ball. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 4th December 1985A bill is £912 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 5th December 1985The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 84)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 6th December 1985A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 11.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 7th December 1985The bearing of B from A is 282°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 8th December 1985A bag holds 10 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 9th December 1985Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 10 < x <= 15. The frequencies in order are 16, 11, 7, 3, 21. Write down the modal class.
- 10th December 1985Work out (54 x 10^12) / (6 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 11th December 1985Expand and simplify 2(5x - 12).
- 12th December 1985A pack of 5 sponges costs £2.50. A pack of 20 costs £8.80. Which pack is better value?
- 13th December 1985A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 14th December 1985A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th December 1985Of 54 students, 37 study French, 25 study German and 14 study both. How many study neither?
- 16th December 1985A meal deal has 9 mains, 5 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 17th December 1985A line has equation y = 3x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 18th December 1985Work out 5% of 260.
- 19th December 1985A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 15 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 20th December 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 21st December 1985In a survey 3 households own 1 car, 2 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 22nd December 1985A bill is £624 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 23rd December 1985Solve 2(x - 1) = 18.
- 24th December 1985Write the ratio 3 : 21 in the form 1 : n.
- 25th December 1985Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 105°, 98° and 83°. Work out the fourth.
- 26th December 1985A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 27th December 1985A box plot has a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 41. Work out the range.
- 28th December 1985Work out (54 x 10^10) / (6 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 29th December 1985Use v = u + at with u = 7, a = 4 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 30th December 1985A coach travels 70 km in 1 hour, then 60 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 31st December 1985A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 8 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.