Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 1986 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1986
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- 1st January 1986A bag holds 3 red and 9 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 2nd January 1986A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 7x + 25. Use it to estimate y when x = 6.
- 3rd January 1986A meal deal has 5 mains, 3 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 4th January 19863 teas and 2 cakes cost £13.15. 2 teas and 2 cakes cost £11.10. Find the price of a tea.
- 5th January 1986Kwame drives 90 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 6th January 1986Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
- 7th January 1986A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 8th January 1986Four classes in order have frequencies 12, 12, 11, 10. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 9th January 1986A bill is £960 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 10th January 1986For the curve y = 12/x, work out y when x = -4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 11th January 1986Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 5 : 9. There are 70 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 12th January 1986The bearing of B from A is 315°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 13th January 1986A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 14th January 198655 fish are marked and released. Later 28 are caught, of which 7 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 15th January 1986Work out (81 x 10^6) / (9 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 16th January 1986Factorise x^2 - 64.
- 17th January 1986A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 11 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 18th January 1986A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 11 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 19th January 1986A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 20th January 1986A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 80 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 21st January 1986A meal deal has 5 mains, 8 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 22nd January 1986Does the point (3, -2) satisfy y > -2x + 1?
- 23rd January 1986A pack of 4 pencils costs £1.20. A pack of 16 costs £3.84. Which pack is better value?
- 24th January 1986A trapezium has parallel sides of 8 cm and 15 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 25th January 1986A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 26th January 1986230 people were surveyed. 60 were adults, of whom 30 said yes. 70 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 27th January 1986A bill is £744 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 28th January 1986A line has gradient -1 and passes through (5, 4). Work out its equation.
- 29th January 1986Work out 30% of 320.
- 30th January 1986Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 53°, 72° and 171°. Work out the fourth.
- 31st January 1986A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.