Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 1989 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1989A coach travels 20 km in 0.5 hours, then 80 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 2nd May 1989Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 101°, 108° and 32°. Work out the fourth.
- 3rd May 1989A bag holds 9 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 4th May 1989A box plot has minimum 1, lower quartile 7, median 14, upper quartile 17 and maximum 26. Work out the interquartile range.
- 5th May 1989Work out (63 x 10^10) / (7 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 6th May 1989Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 8.
- 7th May 1989Amelia drives 100 km in 2.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 8th May 1989A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 8 cm and height 6 cm. The prism is 12 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 9th May 1989A bag holds 4 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th May 1989A 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?
- 11th May 1989A meal deal has 9 mains, 5 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 12th May 1989The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 84)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 13th May 1989Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 2 : 9. There are 18 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 14th May 1989Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular octagon.
- 15th May 1989A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 16th May 1989Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 10 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 3, 21, 11, 16, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 17th May 1989A bill is £48 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 18th May 1989Expand and simplify 8(7x - 11).
- 19th May 1989A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 12 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 20th May 1989The bearing of B from A is 042°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 21st May 1989A bag holds 4 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 22nd May 1989Of 38 students, 20 study French, 25 study German and 12 study both. How many study neither?
- 23rd May 1989Work out (63 x 10^7) / (7 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 24th May 1989A line has equation y = 4x - 20. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 25th May 1989A pack of 12 sponges costs £2.40. A pack of 36 costs £6.84. Which pack is better value?
- 26th May 1989A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 27th May 1989A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th May 1989In a survey 5 households own 1 car, 9 own 2 cars and 6 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 29th May 1989A meal deal has 8 mains, 7 sides and 6 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 30th May 1989Solve 2(x + 3) = 12.
- 31st May 1989Work out 75% of 260.