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May 1953

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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  1. 1st May 1953A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 10, 5, 9 and 11. How many values are in the whole data set?
  2. 2nd May 1953Work out 2/7 x 5/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  3. 3rd May 1953Solve the inequality 6x - 8 <= 70.
  4. 4th May 1953A 1100 g bag of rice costs £11.00. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  5. 5th May 1953A cuboid measures 7 cm by 11 cm by 3 cm. Work out its volume.
  6. 6th May 1953A bag holds 8 red, 8 blue and 3 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is blue.
  7. 7th May 1953A scatter graph plots the height of a tree and its age. What type of correlation would you expect?
  8. 8th May 1953A length x is 13.5 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
  9. 9th May 1953Simplify 2a + 2b + 4a - 2b.
  10. 10th May 1953£1 is worth 1.15 euros. How many euros does £60 buy?
  11. 11th May 1953Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 135°. Work out the other.
  12. 12th May 1953A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  13. 13th May 1953A pie chart shows 15 people. 6 of them chose science. Work out the angle of that sector.
  14. 14th May 1953Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(24) lie?
  15. 15th May 1953A line has equation y = 3x - 3. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  16. 16th May 1953A recipe for 10 muffins uses 170 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 muffins?
  17. 17th May 1953Two of the angles in a triangle are 33° and 64°. Work out the third angle.
  18. 18th May 1953Aisha has 4 scores with a mean of 11. Scores 6, 13, 9 are known. Work out the missing score.
  19. 19th May 1953120 students were asked how they travel. 20 walked, and of those 5 were late. How many walkers were on time?
  20. 20th May 1953Work out 6/7 divided by 3/6. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  21. 21st May 1953The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  22. 22nd May 19533 identical cupcakes cost £5.40. Work out the cost of 12 of the same cupcakes.
  23. 23rd May 1953A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  24. 24th May 1953The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  25. 25th May 1953On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 2 people. A bar is 3 squares tall. How many people does it show?
  26. 26th May 1953A length x is 36 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
  27. 27th May 1953A rectangle is x cm wide and 9 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
  28. 28th May 1953A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 2.5 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  29. 29th May 1953An L-shape is a 9 cm by 10 cm rectangle with a 3 cm by 6 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
  30. 30th May 1953Using only the digits 3, 4, 6 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
  31. 31st May 1953A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 4 with the leaves 2, 3, 4, 5, 9. Work out the median of the five values.

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