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October 1953

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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  1. 1st October 1953A 800 g bag of rice costs £5.60. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  2. 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.
  3. 3rd October 1953Using only the digits 4, 3, 8 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
  4. 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?
  5. 5th October 1953Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(119) lie?
  6. 6th October 1953Use v = u + at with u = 3, a = 2 and t = 3. Work out v.
  7. 7th October 1953£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £480 buy?
  8. 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.
  9. 9th October 1953Here are 7 numbers: 24, 23, 23, 32, 28, 33, 33. Work out the mean.
  10. 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.
  11. 11th October 1953Work out 2/7 x 8/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  12. 12th October 1953A sequence has nth term 5n - 7. Work out the 12th term.
  13. 13th October 1953A recipe for 6 scones uses 174 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 20 scones?
  14. 14th October 1953A cuboid measures 6 cm by 11 cm by 9 cm. Work out its total surface area.
  15. 15th October 1953Here are seven numbers: 22, 11, 5, 28, 8, 14, 19. Work out the median and the range.
  16. 16th October 1953A pie chart shows 20 items. One sector has an angle of 216°. How many items does it represent?
  17. 17th October 1953A length x is 65 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
  18. 18th October 1953Solve the inequality 6x - 11 < 31.
  19. 19th October 19537 identical pens cost £6.30. Work out the cost of 2 of the same pens.
  20. 20th October 1953The point (7, -5) is rotated 90° anticlockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
  21. 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.
  22. 22nd October 1953Of 60 students, 26 study French, 38 study German and 9 study both. How many study neither?
  23. 23rd October 1953Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(138) lie?
  24. 24th October 1953Simplify 5a + 4b + 4a - 9b.
  25. 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?
  26. 26th October 1953Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 77°, 62° and 131°. Work out the fourth.
  27. 27th October 1953A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  28. 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?
  29. 29th October 1953Work out 8/9 x 2/3. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  30. 30th October 1953A line has equation y = 2x - 6. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  31. 31st October 1953A 900 g bag of rice costs £2.25. Work out the cost per 100 g.

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