Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
October 1988 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1988Work out (24 x 10^10) / (8 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 2nd October 1988Factorise x^2 - 49.
- 3rd October 1988A coach travels 60 km in 1 hour, then 50 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 4th October 1988A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 14 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 20 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 5th October 1988A bag holds 4 red and 2 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 6th October 1988A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 128 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 7th October 1988A meal deal has 8 mains, 5 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 8th October 1988Does the point (3, -15) satisfy y > -3x - 1?
- 9th October 1988Maeve drives 112.5 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 10th October 1988Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 11th October 1988A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 12th October 1988120 people were surveyed. 50 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 20 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 13th October 1988A bill is £168 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 14th October 1988A line has gradient 5 and passes through (1, -4). Work out its equation.
- 15th October 1988Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 3 : 4. There are 24 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 16th October 1988The bearing of B from A is 168°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 17th October 1988A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 18th October 1988A box plot has minimum 2, lower quartile 10, median 17, upper quartile 26 and maximum 31. Work out the interquartile range.
- 19th October 1988Work out (45 x 10^7) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 20th October 1988Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 6.
- 21st October 1988A 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?
- 22nd October 1988A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 11 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 23rd October 1988A bag holds 3 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 24th October 1988A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of ice creams sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 25th October 1988A meal deal has 3 mains, 5 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 26th October 1988The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 36)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 27th October 1988A pack of 11 pencils costs £5.50. A pack of 33 costs £14.52. Which pack is better value?
- 28th October 1988A trapezium has parallel sides of 12 cm and 19 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 29th October 1988A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 30th October 1988Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 40 < x <= 50. The frequencies in order are 21, 7, 11, 16, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 31st October 1988A bill is £360 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.