Daily Practice · Foundation
October 1953 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1953A 800 g bag of rice costs £5.60. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 2nd October 1953A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 3rd October 1953Using only the digits 4, 3, 8 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 4th October 1953On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 2 people. A bar is 5 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 5th October 1953Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(119) lie?
- 6th October 1953Use v = u + at with u = 3, a = 2 and t = 3. Work out v.
- 7th October 1953£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £480 buy?
- 8th October 1953An L-shape is a 9 cm by 10 cm rectangle with a 4 cm by 3 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 9th October 1953Here are 7 numbers: 24, 23, 23, 32, 28, 33, 33. Work out the mean.
- 10th October 1953A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 4 with the leaves 0, 4, 5, 6, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 11th October 1953Work out 2/7 x 8/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 12th October 1953A sequence has nth term 5n - 7. Work out the 12th term.
- 13th October 1953A recipe for 6 scones uses 174 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 20 scones?
- 14th October 1953A cuboid measures 6 cm by 11 cm by 9 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 15th October 1953Here are seven numbers: 22, 11, 5, 28, 8, 14, 19. Work out the median and the range.
- 16th October 1953A pie chart shows 20 items. One sector has an angle of 216°. How many items does it represent?
- 17th October 1953A length x is 65 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 18th October 1953Solve the inequality 6x - 11 < 31.
- 19th October 19537 identical pens cost £6.30. Work out the cost of 2 of the same pens.
- 20th October 1953The point (7, -5) is rotated 90° anticlockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 21st October 1953A bag holds 2 red, 7 blue and 4 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is green.
- 22nd October 1953Of 60 students, 26 study French, 38 study German and 9 study both. How many study neither?
- 23rd October 1953Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(138) lie?
- 24th October 1953Simplify 5a + 4b + 4a - 9b.
- 25th October 1953A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 50. The real length is 3 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 26th October 1953Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 77°, 62° and 131°. Work out the fourth.
- 27th October 1953A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 28th October 1953230 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 35 said yes. 60 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 29th October 1953Work out 8/9 x 2/3. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 30th October 1953A line has equation y = 2x - 6. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 31st October 1953A 900 g bag of rice costs £2.25. Work out the cost per 100 g.