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January 1960

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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  1. 1st January 1960In a survey 9 households own 1 car, 8 own 2 cars and 5 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
  2. 2nd January 1960A length x is 37 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
  3. 3rd January 1960Solve the inequality 3x - 6 <= 24.
  4. 4th January 1960£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £280 buy?
  5. 5th January 1960The bearing of B from A is 337°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
  6. 6th January 1960A bag holds 5 red, 6 blue and 7 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
  7. 7th January 1960A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 10, 4, 8 and 4. How many values are in the whole data set?
  8. 8th January 1960Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(75) lie?
  9. 9th January 1960Simplify 5a + 6b + 2a - 4b.
  10. 10th January 1960A recipe for 4 scones uses 120 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 scones?
  11. 11th January 1960A cuboid measures 15 cm by 14 cm by 10 cm. Work out its volume.
  12. 12th January 1960A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
  13. 13th January 1960A scatter graph plots a pupil's height and their score in a spelling test. What type of correlation would you expect?
  14. 14th January 1960Work out 7/9 x 1/7. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  15. 15th January 1960A line has equation y = 5x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  16. 16th January 19607 identical batteries cost £14.00. Work out the cost of 3 of the same batteries.
  17. 17th January 1960Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 123°. Work out the other.
  18. 18th January 1960Finlay has 5 scores with a mean of 11. Scores 11, 10, 8, 14 are known. Work out the missing score.
  19. 19th January 1960A pie chart shows 30 people. 26 of them chose history. Work out the angle of that sector.
  20. 20th January 1960A length x is 8.2 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
  21. 21st January 1960The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 36)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  22. 22nd January 1960A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 50. The real length is 4.5 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  23. 23rd January 1960Two of the angles in a triangle are 60° and 35°. Work out the third angle.
  24. 24th January 1960The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/2. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  25. 25th January 1960120 students were asked how they travel. 30 walked, and of those 15 were late. How many walkers were on time?
  26. 26th January 1960Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(221) lie?
  27. 27th January 1960A rectangle is x cm wide and 3 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
  28. 28th January 1960A 1100 g bag of oats costs £12.65. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  29. 29th January 1960A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 10 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  30. 30th January 1960Using only the digits 2, 5, 7, 9 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
  31. 31st January 1960On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 4 people. A bar is 7 squares tall. How many people does it show?

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