Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
September 1987 5-a-day
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Every sheet in September 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1987Work out (35 x 10^11) / (5 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 2nd September 1987Factorise x^2 - 8x + 7.
- 3rd September 1987A pack of 10 pencils costs £3.00. A pack of 20 costs £5.40. Which pack is better value?
- 4th September 1987A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 10 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 5th September 1987A bag holds 4 red and 8 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 6th September 1987A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 136 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 7th September 1987A meal deal has 7 mains, 9 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 8th September 1987Does the point (3, 14) satisfy y > x + 6?
- 9th September 1987Work out 60% of 200.
- 10th September 1987Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 11th September 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 12th September 1987130 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 45 said yes. 10 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 13th September 1987A bill is £336 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 14th September 1987A line has gradient 4 and passes through (1, 6). Work out its equation.
- 15th September 1987Write the ratio 5 : 20 in the form 1 : n.
- 16th September 1987The bearing of B from A is 122°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 17th September 1987A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th September 1987A box plot has minimum 14, lower quartile 24, median 32, upper quartile 38 and maximum 46. Work out the interquartile range.
- 19th September 1987Work out (16 x 10^11) / (2 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 20th September 1987Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 2.
- 21st September 1987A coach travels 80 km in 1 hour, then 50 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 22nd September 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.
- 23rd September 1987A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 24th September 1987A scatter graph plots a runner's time for 100 m and the distance they can throw a ball. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 25th September 1987A meal deal has 8 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 26th September 1987The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 136)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 27th September 1987Amelia drives 100 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 28th September 1987A trapezium has parallel sides of 8 cm and 19 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 29th September 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 30th September 1987Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 0 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 3, 21, 7, 11, 16. Write down the modal class.