Daily Practice · Foundation
May 1961 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1961150 students were asked how they travel. 40 walked, and of those 15 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 2nd May 1961A length x is 42 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 3rd May 1961A rectangle is x cm wide and 4 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 4th May 1961A recipe for 10 muffins uses 200 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 muffins?
- 5th May 1961A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 6th May 1961Using only the digits 2, 8, 9 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 7th May 1961On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 5 people. A bar is 8 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 8th May 1961Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(12) lie?
- 9th May 1961Use v = u + at with u = 4, a = 9 and t = 6. Work out v.
- 10th May 19614 identical pens cost £8.00. Work out the cost of 3 of the same pens.
- 11th May 1961An L-shape is a 19 cm by 18 cm rectangle with a 8 cm by 13 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 12th May 1961Here are 7 numbers: 25, 30, 23, 28, 31, 33, 26. Work out the mean.
- 13th May 1961A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 4 with the leaves 0, 5, 7, 8, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 14th May 1961Work out 2/9 x 4/8. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 15th May 1961A sequence has nth term 2n - 8. Work out the 10th term.
- 16th May 1961A model of an aircraft is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 3 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 17th May 1961A cuboid measures 8 cm by 7 cm by 12 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 18th May 1961Here are seven numbers: 8, 4, 22, 5, 2, 28, 14. Work out the median and the range.
- 19th May 1961A pie chart shows 90 items. One sector has an angle of 28°. How many items does it represent?
- 20th May 1961A length x is 28 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 21st May 1961Solve the inequality 4x - 5 >= 47.
- 22nd May 1961A 900 g bag of pasta costs £6.30. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 23rd May 1961The point (-5, -5) is rotated 90° anticlockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 24th May 1961A bag holds 2 red, 6 blue and 6 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 25th May 1961Of 49 students, 22 study French, 19 study German and 10 study both. How many study neither?
- 26th May 1961Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(90) lie?
- 27th May 1961Simplify 7a + 3b + 3a - 2b.
- 28th May 1961£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £440 buy?
- 29th May 1961Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 63°, 41° and 130°. Work out the fourth.
- 30th May 1961A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 31st May 1961130 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 20 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?