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August 1990 5-a-day
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- 1st August 1990A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 2nd August 1990A bag holds 3 red and 8 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 3rd August 1990190 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 30 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 4th August 1990A meal deal has 4 mains, 5 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 5th August 1990A line has gradient 4 and passes through (6, 32). Work out its equation.
- 6th August 1990A coach travels 20 km in 0.5 hours, then 20 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 7th August 1990A trapezium has parallel sides of 14 cm and 19 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 8th August 1990A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 9th August 1990A box plot has minimum 12, lower quartile 20, median 29, upper quartile 34 and maximum 37. Work out the interquartile range.
- 10th August 1990A bill is £408 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 11th August 1990Make x the subject of y = 3x^2 - 12.
- 12th August 1990Yusuf drives 320 km in 4 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 13th August 1990Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 135°, 75° and 34°. Work out the fourth.
- 14th August 1990A bag holds 7 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 15th August 1990A scatter graph plots rainfall in a week and the number of umbrellas sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 16th August 1990Work out (21 x 10^8) / (3 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 17th August 1990The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 18th August 1990Red and blue stickers are in the ratio 3 : 7. There are 21 red stickers. How many stickers are there altogether?
- 19th August 1990A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 18 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 16 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 20th August 1990A bag holds 3 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 21st August 1990Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 30 < x <= 40. The frequencies in order are 11, 16, 3, 21, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 22nd August 1990A meal deal has 4 mains, 4 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 23rd August 1990Expand and simplify 8(2x - 8).
- 24th August 1990A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 11.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 25th August 1990Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
- 26th August 1990A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 27th August 1990Of 75 students, 35 study French, 28 study German and 6 study both. How many study neither?
- 28th August 1990A bill is £528 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 29th August 1990A line has equation y = 4x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 30th August 1990A pack of 4 pencils costs £1.00. A pack of 16 costs £3.68. Which pack is better value?
- 31st August 1990The bearing of B from A is 110°. Work out the bearing of A from B.