Daily Practice · Foundation
May 1959 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1959Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(70) lie?
- 2nd May 1959Simplify 4a + 5b + 5a - 5b.
- 3rd May 1959A 1100 g bag of rice costs £11.55. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 4th May 1959Two of the angles in a triangle are 29° and 44°. Work out the third angle.
- 5th May 1959A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 6th May 1959170 students were asked how they travel. 50 walked, and of those 15 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 7th May 1959Work out 5/7 x 4/5. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 8th May 1959A line has equation y = 3x - 6. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 9th May 1959£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £260 buy?
- 10th May 1959A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 9 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 11th May 1959Idris has 5 scores with a mean of 17. Scores 12, 17, 12, 22 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 12th May 1959On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 20 people. A bar is 7 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 13th May 1959A length x is 560 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 14th May 1959The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 115)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 15th May 1959A recipe for 10 scones uses 300 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 9 scones?
- 16th May 1959An L-shape is a 20 cm by 20 cm rectangle with a 9 cm by 2 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 17th May 1959The probability that it rains tomorrow is 2/5. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 18th May 1959A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 2 with the leaves 0, 1, 2, 5, 8. Work out the median of the five values.
- 19th May 1959Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(35) lie?
- 20th May 1959A rectangle is x cm wide and 2 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 21st May 19594 identical pens cost £1.60. Work out the cost of 4 of the same pens.
- 22nd May 1959A cuboid measures 8 cm by 7 cm by 11 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 23rd May 1959Using only the digits 8, 9, 1 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 24th May 1959A pie chart shows 72 items. One sector has an angle of 40°. How many items does it represent?
- 25th May 1959Work out 3/4 divided by 3/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 26th May 1959Use v = u + at with u = 13, a = 2 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 27th May 1959A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 0.75 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 28th May 1959The point (4, -7) is rotated 180° about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 29th May 1959Here are 5 numbers: 21, 11, 16, 17, 15. Work out the mean.
- 30th May 1959Of 53 students, 11 study French, 31 study German and 6 study both. How many study neither?
- 31st May 1959A length x is 360 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.