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August 1966

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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  1. 1st August 1966A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 9 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  2. 2nd August 1966A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  3. 3rd August 1966On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 4 people. A bar is 7 squares tall. How many people does it show?
  4. 4th August 1966Work out 1/4 x 3/6. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  5. 5th August 1966A line has equation y = 2x - 6. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  6. 6th August 1966A recipe for 4 flapjacks uses 164 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 20 flapjacks?
  7. 7th August 1966An L-shape is a 9 cm by 16 cm rectangle with a 6 cm by 5 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
  8. 8th August 1966Callum has 4 scores with a mean of 19. Scores 13, 25, 20 are known. Work out the missing score.
  9. 9th August 1966A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 2 with the leaves 2, 6, 7, 8, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
  10. 10th August 1966A length x is 19.3 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
  11. 11th August 1966The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 3x° and (x + 20)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  12. 12th August 19668 identical pens cost £10.00. Work out the cost of 12 of the same pens.
  13. 13th August 1966A cuboid measures 4 cm by 11 cm by 11 cm. Work out its total surface area.
  14. 14th August 1966The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/2. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  15. 15th August 1966A pie chart shows 20 items. One sector has an angle of 180°. How many items does it represent?
  16. 16th August 1966Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(90) lie?
  17. 17th August 1966A rectangle is x cm wide and 8 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
  18. 18th August 1966A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 2 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  19. 19th August 1966The point (1, 3) is rotated 90° anticlockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
  20. 20th August 1966Using only the digits 4, 1, 7 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
  21. 21st August 1966Of 50 students, 26 study French, 23 study German and 6 study both. How many study neither?
  22. 22nd August 1966Work out 1/2 x 2/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  23. 23rd August 1966Use v = u + at with u = 6, a = 8 and t = 5. Work out v.
  24. 24th August 1966A 300 g bag of pasta costs £3.60. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  25. 25th August 1966Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 60°, 123° and 85°. Work out the fourth.
  26. 26th August 1966Here are 5 numbers: 16, 18, 18, 16, 17. Work out the mean.
  27. 27th August 1966200 people were surveyed. 60 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 65 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
  28. 28th August 1966A length x is 79 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
  29. 29th August 1966A sequence has nth term 3n - 12. Work out the 20th term.
  30. 30th August 1966£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £240 buy?
  31. 31st August 1966A trapezium has parallel sides of 14 cm and 24 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.

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