Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
October 1990 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1990
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- 1st October 1990A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 2nd October 1990A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 84 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 3rd October 1990A bill is £816 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 4th October 1990Does the point (2, 9) satisfy y > 2x + 4?
- 5th October 1990A map has a scale of 1 : 10000. Two villages are 7.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 6th October 1990The bearing of B from A is 214°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 7th October 1990A bag holds 3 red and 9 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 8th October 1990200 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 25 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 9th October 1990Work out (14 x 10^12) / (2 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 10th October 1990A line has gradient 1 and passes through (2, 1). Work out its equation.
- 11th October 1990A pack of 9 teabags costs £1.35. A pack of 27 costs £2.43. Which pack is better value?
- 12th October 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.
- 13th October 1990A bag holds 6 red and 6 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 14th October 1990A box plot has minimum 2, lower quartile 7, median 15, upper quartile 17 and maximum 25. Work out the interquartile range.
- 15th October 1990A meal deal has 3 mains, 8 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 16th October 1990Make x the subject of y = 4x^2 - 8.
- 17th October 1990Work out 20% of 140.
- 18th October 1990A trapezium has parallel sides of 12 cm and 15 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 19th October 1990A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 20th October 1990A scatter graph plots a phone's age and its resale value. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 21st October 1990A bill is £600 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 22nd October 1990The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 26)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 23rd October 1990Write the ratio 6 : 42 in the form 1 : n.
- 24th October 1990Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 86°, 51° and 64°. Work out the fourth.
- 25th October 1990A bag holds 6 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 26th October 1990Grouped data has five classes of width 5, the first being 5 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 16, 3, 21, 11, 7. Write down the modal class.
- 27th October 1990Work out (15 x 10^7) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 28th October 1990Expand and simplify 8(8x - 1).
- 29th October 1990A coach travels 90 km in 1 hour, then 30 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 30th October 1990A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 4 cm and height 6 cm. The prism is 11 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 31st October 1990A bag holds 7 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.