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March 1961

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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  1. 1st March 1961A bag holds 9 red, 9 blue and 7 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is green.
  2. 2nd March 1961On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 5 people. A bar is 8 squares tall. How many people does it show?
  3. 3rd March 1961Work out 1/3 x 2/7. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  4. 4th March 1961Simplify 9a + 5b + 6a - 6b.
  5. 5th March 1961A recipe for 10 pancakes uses 220 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 15 pancakes?
  6. 6th March 1961An L-shape is a 9 cm by 18 cm rectangle with a 3 cm by 14 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
  7. 7th March 1961A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
  8. 8th March 1961A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 2 with the leaves 1, 2, 5, 6, 8. Work out the median of the five values.
  9. 9th March 1961A length x is 480 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
  10. 10th March 1961A line has equation y = 4x - 24. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  11. 11th March 19614 identical cupcakes cost £8.80. Work out the cost of 7 of the same cupcakes.
  12. 12th March 1961A cuboid measures 12 cm by 9 cm by 6 cm. Work out its total surface area.
  13. 13th March 1961Sanjay has 5 scores with a mean of 17. Scores 16, 19, 15, 18 are known. Work out the missing score.
  14. 14th March 1961A pie chart shows 60 items. One sector has an angle of 60°. How many items does it represent?
  15. 15th March 1961Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(223) lie?
  16. 16th March 1961The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 66)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  17. 17th March 1961A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 10 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  18. 18th March 1961The point (-7, 6) is rotated 90° clockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
  19. 19th March 1961The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/10. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  20. 20th March 1961Of 51 students, 43 study French, 20 study German and 14 study both. How many study neither?
  21. 21st March 1961Work out 3/4 divided by 2/6. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  22. 22nd March 1961A rectangle is x cm wide and 2 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
  23. 23rd March 1961A 600 g bag of coffee costs £7.20. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  24. 24th March 1961Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 97°, 115° and 77°. Work out the fourth.
  25. 25th March 1961Using only the digits 2, 5, 9 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
  26. 26th March 196190 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  27. 27th March 1961A length x is 17 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
  28. 28th March 1961Use v = u + at with u = 15, a = 3 and t = 7. Work out v.
  29. 29th March 1961£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £580 buy?
  30. 30th March 1961A trapezium has parallel sides of 3 cm and 12 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.
  31. 31st March 1961Here are 6 numbers: 24, 33, 32, 27, 29, 23. Work out the mean.

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