Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 1990 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1990For the curve y = -48/x, work out y when x = -4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 2nd January 1990Write the ratio 2 : 18 in the form 1 : n.
- 3rd January 1990A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 21 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 4th January 1990A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 5th January 199015 fish are marked and released. Later 6 are caught, of which 2 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 6th January 1990A bill is £384 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 7th January 1990Factorise x^2 - x - 20.
- 8th January 1990A coach travels 80 km in 1 hour, then 60 km in 0.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 9th January 1990Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 86°, 111° and 66°. Work out the fourth.
- 10th January 1990A bag holds 8 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 11th January 1990A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 104 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 12th January 1990Work out (36 x 10^9) / (9 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 13th January 1990Does the point (-2, 0) satisfy y > -x + 1?
- 14th January 1990Sanjay drives 135 km in 3 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 15th January 1990A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 4 cm and height 4 cm. The prism is 15 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 16th January 1990A bag holds 3 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 17th January 1990190 people were surveyed. 50 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 18th January 1990A meal deal has 6 mains, 4 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 19th January 1990A line has gradient -2 and passes through (2, -13). Work out its equation.
- 20th January 1990Red and blue marbles are in the ratio 4 : 5. There are 44 red marbles. How many marbles are there altogether?
- 21st January 1990Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular decagon.
- 22nd January 1990A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 23rd January 1990A box plot has minimum 6, lower quartile 11, median 15, upper quartile 23 and maximum 33. Work out the interquartile range.
- 24th January 1990A bill is £912 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 25th January 1990Make x the subject of y = 2x^2 - 8.
- 26th January 1990A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 14 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 27th January 1990The bearing of B from A is 324°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 28th January 1990A bag holds 8 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 29th January 1990A scatter graph plots how far a lorry has driven and the fuel left in its tank. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 30th January 1990Work out (30 x 10^8) / (6 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 31st January 1990The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 84)°. Form an equation and work out x.