Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
March 1990 5-a-day
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Every sheet in March 1990
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- 1st March 1990A bill is £768 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 2nd March 19905 teas and 3 cakes cost £8.65. 1 tea and 4 cakes cost £6.15. Find the price of a tea.
- 3rd March 1990Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 5 : 8. There are 35 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
- 4th March 1990The bearing of B from A is 319°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 5th March 1990A bag holds 6 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 6th March 1990Four classes in order have frequencies 8, 8, 3, 6. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
- 7th March 1990Work out (18 x 10^10) / (3 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 8th March 1990For the curve y = -40/x, work out y when x = -4, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
- 9th March 1990A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 11 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 10th March 1990A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 9 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 11th March 1990A bag holds 4 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 12th March 199045 fish are marked and released. Later 48 are caught, of which 6 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 13th March 1990A meal deal has 5 mains, 6 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 14th March 1990Factorise x^2 + 10x + 24.
- 15th March 1990A pack of 4 batteries costs 80p. A pack of 12 costs £2.16. Which pack is better value?
- 16th March 1990A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 15 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 17th March 1990A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 18th March 1990A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 156 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 19th March 1990A bill is £288 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 20th March 1990Does the point (1, -3) satisfy y > -x + 6?
- 21st March 1990Work out 60% of 260.
- 22nd March 1990Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 119°, 100° and 105°. Work out the fourth.
- 23rd March 1990A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 24th March 1990130 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 25 said yes. 30 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 25th March 1990Work out (56 x 10^7) / (7 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 26th March 1990A line has gradient 1 and passes through (1, -3). Work out its equation.
- 27th March 1990Write the ratio 7 : 21 in the form 1 : n.
- 28th March 1990A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 18 cm and height 13 cm. The prism is 20 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 29th March 1990A bag holds 2 red and 9 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 30th March 1990A box plot has minimum 9, lower quartile 16, median 26, upper quartile 30 and maximum 35. Work out the interquartile range.
- 31st March 1990A meal deal has 8 mains, 3 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?