Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
October 1989 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1989Of 64 students, 38 study French, 21 study German and 15 study both. How many study neither?
- 2nd October 1989A meal deal has 6 mains, 4 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 3rd October 1989A line has equation y = 2x - 10. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 4th October 1989Work out 75% of 380.
- 5th October 1989Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 6th October 1989A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 7th October 1989In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 2 own 2 cars and 7 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 8th October 1989A bill is £744 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 9th October 1989Solve 7(x + 4) = 112.
- 10th October 1989Write the ratio 2 : 16 in the form 1 : n.
- 11th October 1989The bearing of B from A is 106°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 12th October 1989A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 13th October 1989A box plot has a minimum of 16 and a maximum of 55. Work out the range.
- 14th October 1989Work out (9 x 10^6) / (3 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 15th October 1989Use v = u + at with u = 11, a = 5 and t = 2. Work out v.
- 16th October 1989A coach travels 90 km in 1 hour, then 20 km in 1 hour. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 17th October 1989A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 3 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 18th October 1989A bag holds 3 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 19th October 1989A line of best fit on a scatter graph has equation y = 4x + 13. Use it to estimate y when x = 4.
- 20th October 1989A meal deal has 4 mains, 5 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 21st October 19892 teas and 2 cakes cost £7.70. 2 teas and 3 cakes cost £9.90. Find the price of a tea.
- 22nd October 1989Ellis drives 90 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 23rd October 1989A trapezium has parallel sides of 14 cm and 24 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 24th October 1989A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 25th October 1989Four classes in order have frequencies 8, 7, 9, 4. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 26th October 1989A bill is £912 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 27th October 1989For the curve y = 8/x, work out y when x = 4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 28th October 1989Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 3 : 4. There are 45 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 29th October 1989Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 115°, 123° and 43°. Work out the fourth.
- 30th October 1989A bag holds 4 red and 8 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 31st October 198915 newts are marked and released. Later 12 are caught, of which 4 are marked. Estimate the population.