Daily Practice · Foundation
March 1979 5-a-day
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- 1st March 1979A recipe for 10 scones uses 380 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 5 scones?
- 2nd March 1979The bearing of B from A is 300°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 3rd March 1979Using only the digits 4, 9, 3 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 4th March 1979A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 3, 6, 8 and 8. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 5th March 1979A length x is 800 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 6th March 1979Use v = u + at with u = 8, a = 3 and t = 2. Work out v.
- 7th March 19797 identical cupcakes cost £15.05. Work out the cost of 3 of the same cupcakes.
- 8th March 1979A cuboid measures 10 cm by 3 cm by 14 cm. Work out its volume.
- 9th March 1979Here are 5 numbers: 21, 18, 20, 22, 24. Work out the mean.
- 10th March 1979A scatter graph plots the day of the month and the temperature at noon. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 11th March 1979Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(62) lie?
- 12th March 1979A sequence has nth term 4n - 7. Work out the 20th term.
- 13th March 1979A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 0.4 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 14th March 1979Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 56°. Work out the other.
- 15th March 1979Here are seven numbers: 28, 4, 2, 14, 11, 5, 8. Work out the median and the range.
- 16th March 1979A pie chart shows 18 people. 12 of them chose French. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 17th March 1979Work out 1/2 divided by 1/7. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 18th March 1979Solve the inequality 5x - 3 < 57.
- 19th March 1979A 500 g bag of oats costs £2.50. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 20th March 1979Two of the angles in a triangle are 69° and 31°. Work out the third angle.
- 21st March 1979A bag holds 2 red, 9 blue and 2 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 22nd March 1979190 students were asked how they travel. 40 walked, and of those 20 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 23rd March 1979A length x is 550 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 24th March 1979Simplify 2a + 9b + 8a - 4b.
- 25th March 1979£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £40 buy?
- 26th March 1979A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 5 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 27th March 1979A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 28th March 1979On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 50 people. A bar is 2 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 29th March 1979Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(24) lie?
- 30th March 1979A line has equation y = 3x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 31st March 1979A recipe for 8 flapjacks uses 136 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 flapjacks?