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January 1987 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1987
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- 1st January 1987Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 2nd January 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 3rd January 1987A scatter graph plots the height of a tree and its age. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 4th January 1987A bill is £72 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 5th January 1987The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 82)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 6th January 1987Write the ratio 6 : 24 in the form 1 : n.
- 7th January 1987The bearing of B from A is 131°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 8th January 1987A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 9th January 1987Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 0 < x <= 5. The frequencies in order are 11, 16, 7, 3, 21. Write down the modal class.
- 10th January 1987Work out (8 x 10^6) / (4 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 11th January 1987Expand and simplify 5(7x - 5).
- 12th January 1987A coach travels 90 km in 0.5 hours, then 50 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 13th January 1987A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 10 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 14th January 1987A bag holds 7 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th January 1987Of 64 students, 25 study French, 35 study German and 12 study both. How many study neither?
- 16th January 1987A meal deal has 3 mains, 9 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 17th January 1987A line has equation y = 3x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 18th January 1987Yusuf drives 160 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 19th January 1987A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 20 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 20th January 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 21st January 1987In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 4 own 2 cars and 7 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 22nd January 1987A bill is £792 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 23rd January 1987Solve 6(x + 4) = 42.
- 24th January 1987Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 3 : 8. There are 27 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 25th January 1987Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 72°, 89° and 118°. Work out the fourth.
- 26th January 1987A bag holds 10 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 27th January 1987A box plot has a minimum of 17 and a maximum of 28. Work out the range.
- 28th January 1987Work out (63 x 10^10) / (9 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 29th January 1987Use v = u + at with u = 8, a = 3 and t = 3. Work out v.
- 30th January 1987A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 10 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 31st January 1987A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 14 cm and height 9 cm. The prism is 20 cm long. Work out its volume.