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August 1986 5-a-day
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Every sheet in August 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1986Work out (18 x 10^6) / (6 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 2nd August 1986Factorise x^2 - 81.
- 3rd August 1986Musa drives 120 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 4th August 1986A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 6 cm and height 10 cm. The prism is 17 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 5th August 1986A bag holds 4 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 6th August 1986A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 52 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 7th August 1986A meal deal has 9 mains, 3 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 8th August 1986Does the point (5, 34) satisfy y > 4x + 7?
- 9th August 1986Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 2 : 7. There are 12 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 10th August 1986Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 11th August 1986A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 12th August 1986110 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 30 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 13th August 1986A bill is £552 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 14th August 1986A line has gradient -1 and passes through (2, -8). Work out its equation.
- 15th August 1986A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 12 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 16th August 1986The bearing of B from A is 179°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 17th August 1986A bag holds 7 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th August 1986A box plot has minimum 4, lower quartile 7, median 9, upper quartile 12 and maximum 21. Work out the interquartile range.
- 19th August 1986Work out (10 x 10^8) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 20th August 1986Make x the subject of y = 2x^2 - 3.
- 21st August 1986A pack of 7 teabags costs £2.10. A pack of 14 costs £4.06. Which pack is better value?
- 22nd August 1986A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 9 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 23rd August 1986A bag holds 2 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 24th August 1986A scatter graph plots a car's engine size and the miles it does per gallon. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 25th August 1986A meal deal has 3 mains, 9 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 26th August 1986The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 60)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 27th August 1986Work out 10% of 400.
- 28th August 1986A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 15 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 29th August 1986A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 30th August 1986Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 10 < x <= 15. The frequencies in order are 3, 16, 21, 11, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 31st August 1986A bill is £336 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.