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March 1996 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
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Every sheet in March 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1996A map has a scale of 1 : 25000. Two villages are 14.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 2nd March 1996Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular pentagon.
- 3rd March 1996A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 4th March 1996A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 168 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 5th March 1996A bill is £624 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 6th March 1996Does the point (-3, -4) satisfy y > 4x + 5?
- 7th March 1996A pack of 7 pencils costs £3.15. A pack of 28 costs £12.04. Which pack is better value?
- 8th March 1996The bearing of B from A is 325°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 9th March 1996A bag holds 7 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 10th March 199680 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 35 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 11th March 1996Work out (10 x 10^10) / (5 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 12th March 1996A line has gradient 1 and passes through (6, 8). Work out its equation.
- 13th March 1996Work out 15% of 160.
- 14th March 1996A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 15th March 1996A bag holds 3 red and 3 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 16th March 1996A box plot has minimum 13, lower quartile 17, median 22, upper quartile 25 and maximum 32. Work out the interquartile range.
- 17th March 1996A meal deal has 5 mains, 8 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 18th March 1996Make x the subject of y = 2x^2 - 8.
- 19th March 1996Write the ratio 7 : 28 in the form 1 : n.
- 20th March 1996A trapezium has parallel sides of 14 cm and 18 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 21st March 1996A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 22nd March 1996A scatter graph plots rainfall in a week and the number of umbrellas sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 23rd March 1996A bill is £48 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 24th March 1996The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 120)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 25th March 1996A coach travels 30 km in 1.5 hours, then 90 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 26th March 1996Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 98°, 76° and 54°. Work out the fourth.
- 27th March 1996A bag holds 5 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 28th March 1996Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 0 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 7, 11, 16, 3, 21. Write down the modal class.
- 29th March 1996Work out (48 x 10^12) / (8 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 30th March 1996Expand and simplify 9(9x - 6).
- 31st March 1996Freya drives 100 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.