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May 1987 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1987A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 2nd May 1987A bag holds 7 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 3rd May 1987200 people were surveyed. 60 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 4th May 1987A meal deal has 4 mains, 9 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 5th May 1987A line has gradient -3 and passes through (4, -10). Work out its equation.
- 6th May 1987Work out 15% of 160.
- 7th May 1987A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 14 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 8th May 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 9th May 1987A box plot has minimum 15, lower quartile 17, median 27, upper quartile 35 and maximum 39. Work out the interquartile range.
- 10th May 1987A bill is £696 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 11th May 1987Make x the subject of y = 5x^2 - 11.
- 12th May 1987Write the ratio 5 : 20 in the form 1 : n.
- 13th May 1987Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 86°, 48° and 196°. Work out the fourth.
- 14th May 1987A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th May 1987A scatter graph plots the height of a tree and its age. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 16th May 1987Work out (21 x 10^11) / (7 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 17th May 1987The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 61)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 18th May 1987A coach travels 30 km in 0.5 hours, then 30 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 19th May 1987A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 16 cm and height 13 cm. The prism is 17 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 20th May 1987A bag holds 10 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 21st May 1987Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 20 < x <= 30. The frequencies in order are 3, 21, 16, 7, 11. Write down the modal class.
- 22nd May 1987A meal deal has 8 mains, 5 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 23rd May 1987Expand and simplify 5(9x + 3).
- 24th May 1987Rhys drives 160 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 25th May 1987Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 26th May 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 27th May 1987Of 42 students, 30 study French, 19 study German and 12 study both. How many study neither?
- 28th May 1987A bill is £576 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 29th May 1987A line has equation y = 6x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 30th May 1987Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 2 : 9. There are 30 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 31st May 1987The bearing of B from A is 133°. Work out the bearing of A from B.