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February 1997 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day

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February 1997

28 sheets · 140 questions · Grades 4-6

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  1. 1st February 1997A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 6 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  2. 2nd February 1997A bag holds 2 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  3. 3rd February 199790 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  4. 4th February 1997A meal deal has 4 mains, 3 sides and 2 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  5. 5th February 1997A line has gradient 3 and passes through (1, 10). Work out its equation.
  6. 6th February 1997A pack of 9 pencils costs £2.25. A pack of 36 costs £8.64. Which pack is better value?
  7. 7th February 1997A trapezium has parallel sides of 14 cm and 25 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
  8. 8th February 1997A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  9. 9th February 1997A box plot has minimum 3, lower quartile 11, median 18, upper quartile 28 and maximum 32. Work out the interquartile range.
  10. 10th February 1997A bill is £144 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  11. 11th February 1997Make x the subject of y = 8x^2 - 3.
  12. 12th February 1997Work out 5% of 160.
  13. 13th February 1997Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 41°, 88° and 46°. Work out the fourth.
  14. 14th February 1997A bag holds 5 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
  15. 15th February 1997A scatter graph plots the length of a queue and the number of tills open. What type of correlation would you expect?
  16. 16th February 1997Work out (35 x 10^11) / (7 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  17. 17th February 1997The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 48)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  18. 18th February 1997Write the ratio 6 : 18 in the form 1 : n.
  19. 19th February 1997A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 16 cm and height 6 cm. The prism is 16 cm long. Work out its volume.
  20. 20th February 1997A bag holds 2 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
  21. 21st February 1997Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 10 < x <= 20. The frequencies in order are 21, 11, 16, 7, 3. Write down the modal class.
  22. 22nd February 1997A meal deal has 9 mains, 6 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  23. 23rd February 1997Expand and simplify 4(4x - 7).
  24. 24th February 1997A coach travels 60 km in 0.5 hours, then 50 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
  25. 25th February 1997Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular hexagon.
  26. 26th February 1997A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
  27. 27th February 1997Of 57 students, 35 study French, 22 study German and 9 study both. How many study neither?
  28. 28th February 1997A bill is £408 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.

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