Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 1986 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1986A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 2nd May 1986In a survey 8 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 3 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 3rd May 1986Work out (40 x 10^10) / (8 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 4th May 1986Solve 4(x + 4) = 32.
- 5th May 1986A coach travels 20 km in 1.5 hours, then 30 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 6th May 1986A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 7th May 1986A bag holds 6 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 8th May 1986A box plot has a minimum of 14 and a maximum of 34. Work out the range.
- 9th May 1986A meal deal has 8 mains, 5 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 10th May 1986Use v = u + at with u = 3, a = 3 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 11th May 1986Kwame drives 140 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 12th May 1986A trapezium has parallel sides of 12 cm and 16 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 13th May 1986A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 14th May 1986A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 4x + 11. Use it to estimate y when x = 7.
- 15th May 1986A bill is £288 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 16th May 19865 teas and 4 cakes cost £18.80. 3 teas and 2 cakes cost £10.10. Find the price of a tea.
- 17th May 1986Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 3 : 5. There are 12 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
- 18th May 1986Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 104°, 133° and 41°. Work out the fourth.
- 19th May 1986A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 20th May 1986Four classes in order have frequencies 7, 8, 5, 7. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 21st May 1986Work out (42 x 10^9) / (7 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 22nd May 1986For the curve y = 20/x, work out y when x = 2, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 23rd May 1986A 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?
- 24th May 1986A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 18 cm and height 14 cm. The prism is 16 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 25th May 1986A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 26th May 198625 newts are marked and released. Later 72 are caught, of which 9 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 27th May 1986A meal deal has 3 mains, 9 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 28th May 1986Factorise x^2 - 8x + 7.
- 29th May 1986A pack of 8 teabags costs £4.80. A pack of 32 costs £18.24. Which pack is better value?
- 30th May 1986Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 31st May 1986A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?