Daily Practice · Foundation
October 1978 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1978
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- 1st October 1978Solve the inequality 4x - 13 >= 27.
- 2nd October 1978A recipe for 12 muffins uses 324 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 20 muffins?
- 3rd October 1978Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 116°, 129° and 68°. Work out the fourth.
- 4th October 1978A bag holds 5 red, 3 blue and 2 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 5th October 1978130 people were surveyed. 60 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 6th October 1978Work out 3/5 divided by 4/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 7th October 1978Simplify 4a + 5b + 3a - 1b.
- 8th October 19787 identical cupcakes cost £15.40. Work out the cost of 12 of the same cupcakes.
- 9th October 1978A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 18 cm, 12 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 10th October 1978A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 11th October 1978In a group of 90 students, 30 are boys. 10 boys and 15 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 12th October 1978A length x is 140 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 13th October 1978A line has equation y = 2x - 8. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 14th October 1978A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 12 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 15th October 1978The point (-7, 5) is reflected in the y-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 16th October 1978Isla has 5 scores with a mean of 14. Scores 10, 14, 12, 16 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 17th October 1978In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 3 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 18th October 1978Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(10) lie?
- 19th October 1978The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 20th October 1978A 1000 g bag of coffee costs £4.00. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 21st October 1978The bearing of B from A is 191°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 22nd October 1978The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/2. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 23rd October 1978A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 10, 2, 3 and 6. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 24th October 1978Work out 1/3 divided by 4/5. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 25th October 1978A rectangle is x cm wide and 4 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 26th October 1978£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £120 buy?
- 27th October 1978A cuboid measures 9 cm by 13 cm by 7 cm. Work out its volume.
- 28th October 1978Using only the digits 5, 3, 6, 1 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 29th October 1978A scatter graph plots how far a lorry has driven and the fuel left in its tank. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 30th October 1978A length x is 80 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 31st October 1978Use v = u + at with u = 8, a = 3 and t = 5. Work out v.