Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
March 1987 5-a-day
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Every sheet in March 1987
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- 1st March 1987Finlay drives 125 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 2nd March 1987Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 46°, 61° and 185°. Work out the fourth.
- 3rd March 1987A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 4th March 1987A box plot has minimum 13, lower quartile 18, median 26, upper quartile 33 and maximum 42. Work out the interquartile range.
- 5th March 1987Work out (18 x 10^6) / (9 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 6th March 1987Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 7.
- 7th March 1987Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 7 : 9. There are 63 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 8th March 1987A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 24 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 11 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 9th March 1987A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th March 1987A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of ice creams sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 11th March 1987A meal deal has 7 mains, 3 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 12th March 1987The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 78)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 13th March 1987A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 7.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 14th March 1987Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
- 15th March 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 16th March 1987Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 20 < x <= 30. The frequencies in order are 11, 3, 7, 21, 16. Write down the modal class.
- 17th March 1987A bill is £192 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 18th March 1987Expand and simplify 4(6x + 7).
- 19th March 1987A pack of 10 sponges costs £1.50. A pack of 40 costs £5.20. Which pack is better value?
- 20th March 1987The bearing of B from A is 036°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 21st March 1987A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 22nd March 1987Of 59 students, 29 study French, 20 study German and 8 study both. How many study neither?
- 23rd March 1987Work out (6 x 10^10) / (2 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 24th March 1987A line has equation y = 5x - 15. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 25th March 1987Work out 75% of 120.
- 26th March 1987A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 27th March 1987A bag holds 7 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th March 1987In a survey 9 households own 1 car, 4 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 29th March 1987A meal deal has 3 mains, 9 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 30th March 1987Solve 4(x + 4) = 64.
- 31st March 1987Write the ratio 4 : 32 in the form 1 : n.