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August 1977

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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  1. 1st August 1977A sequence has nth term 6n + 2. Work out the 12th term.
  2. 2nd August 1977£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £600 buy?
  3. 3rd August 1977Two of the angles in a triangle are 87° and 26°. Work out the third angle.
  4. 4th August 1977Here are seven numbers: 5, 25, 8, 19, 17, 14, 7. Work out the median and the range.
  5. 5th August 197760 students were asked how they travel. 70 walked, and of those 10 were late. How many walkers were on time?
  6. 6th August 1977A length x is 660 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
  7. 7th August 1977Solve the inequality 6x + 14 >= 98.
  8. 8th August 1977A recipe for 10 muffins uses 230 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 muffins?
  9. 9th August 1977A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  10. 10th August 1977A bag holds 2 red, 8 blue and 4 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
  11. 11th August 1977On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 20 people. A bar is 5 squares tall. How many people does it show?
  12. 12th August 1977Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(27) lie?
  13. 13th August 1977Simplify 6a + 7b + 9a - 9b.
  14. 14th August 19773 identical notebooks cost £2.10. Work out the cost of 8 of the same notebooks.
  15. 15th August 1977An L-shape is a 18 cm by 17 cm rectangle with a 8 cm by 6 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
  16. 16th August 1977A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
  17. 17th August 1977A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 5 with the leaves 1, 2, 7, 8, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
  18. 18th August 1977Work out 4/8 x 1/2. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  19. 19th August 1977A line has equation y = 3x - 6. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  20. 20th August 1977A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 1.6 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  21. 21st August 1977A cuboid measures 5 cm by 5 cm by 2 cm. Work out its total surface area.
  22. 22nd August 1977Bea has 5 scores with a mean of 10. Scores 12, 10, 8, 13 are known. Work out the missing score.
  23. 23rd August 1977A pie chart shows 20 items. One sector has an angle of 162°. How many items does it represent?
  24. 24th August 1977A length x is 2.8 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
  25. 25th August 1977The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  26. 26th August 1977A 600 g bag of rice costs £6.00. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  27. 27th August 1977The point (-8, -2) is rotated 90° anticlockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
  28. 28th August 1977The probability that it rains tomorrow is 9/10. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  29. 29th August 1977Of 63 students, 32 study French, 17 study German and 4 study both. How many study neither?
  30. 30th August 1977Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(46) lie?
  31. 31st August 1977A rectangle is x cm wide and 7 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.

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