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January 1956 5-a-day

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January 1956

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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  1. 1st January 1956A recipe for 8 scones uses 160 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 5 scones?
  2. 2nd January 1956A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 14 cm, 4 cm apart. Work out its area.
  3. 3rd January 1956A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  4. 4th January 1956In a group of 80 students, 60 are boys. 20 boys and 10 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
  5. 5th January 1956A length x is 74 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
  6. 6th January 1956A line has equation y = 2x - 2. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  7. 7th January 19566 identical cupcakes cost £10.50. Work out the cost of 5 of the same cupcakes.
  8. 8th January 1956The point (-6, 3) is reflected in the y-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
  9. 9th January 1956Isla has 5 scores with a mean of 8. Scores 12, 4, 9, 7 are known. Work out the missing score.
  10. 10th January 1956In a survey 7 households own 1 car, 2 own 2 cars and 4 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  11. 11th January 1956Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(215) lie?
  12. 12th January 1956The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 114)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  13. 13th January 1956A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 50. The real length is 4.5 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  14. 14th January 1956The bearing of B from A is 134°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  15. 15th January 1956The probability that it rains tomorrow is 4/5. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  16. 16th January 1956A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 6, 7, 6 and 7. How many values are in the whole data set?
  17. 17th January 1956Work out 4/7 divided by 2/5. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  18. 18th January 1956A rectangle is x cm wide and 3 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
  19. 19th January 1956A 400 g bag of oats costs £2.00. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  20. 20th January 1956A cuboid measures 11 cm by 3 cm by 10 cm. Work out its volume.
  21. 21st January 1956Using only the digits 3, 7, 8, 4 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
  22. 22nd January 1956A scatter graph plots how far a lorry has driven and the fuel left in its tank. What type of correlation would you expect?
  23. 23rd January 1956A length x is 10.2 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
  24. 24th January 1956Use v = u + at with u = 10, a = 4 and t = 6. Work out v.
  25. 25th January 1956£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £100 buy?
  26. 26th January 1956Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 123°. Work out the other.
  27. 27th January 1956Here are 5 numbers: 23, 31, 29, 26, 21. Work out the mean.
  28. 28th January 1956A pie chart shows 15 people. 6 of them chose art. Work out the angle of that sector.
  29. 29th January 1956Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(215) lie?
  30. 30th January 1956A sequence has nth term 5n - 12. Work out the 100th term.
  31. 31st January 1956A recipe for 12 scones uses 408 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 9 scones?

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