Daily Practice · Foundation
August 1979 5-a-day
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Every sheet in August 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1979180 students were asked how they travel. 60 walked, and of those 15 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 2nd August 1979Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(114) lie?
- 3rd August 1979A line has equation y = 2x - 2. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 4th August 19793 identical notebooks cost £7.05. Work out the cost of 3 of the same notebooks.
- 5th August 1979A 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 August 1979Maeve has 4 scores with a mean of 11. Scores 5, 6, 16 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 7th August 1979On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 50 people. A bar is 6 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 8th August 1979Work out 5/6 x 4/7. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 9th August 1979The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 25)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 10th August 1979A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 2 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 11th August 1979An L-shape is a 15 cm by 17 cm rectangle with a 7 cm by 12 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 12th August 1979The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 13th August 1979A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 3 with the leaves 0, 2, 4, 6, 8. Work out the median of the five values.
- 14th August 1979A length x is 24 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 15th August 1979A rectangle is x cm wide and 9 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 16th August 1979A 300 g bag of oats costs £2.10. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 17th August 1979A cuboid measures 9 cm by 7 cm by 9 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 18th August 1979Using only the digits 9, 1, 5, 7 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 19th August 1979A pie chart shows 24 items. One sector has an angle of 30°. How many items does it represent?
- 20th August 1979Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(119) lie?
- 21st August 1979Use v = u + at with u = 10, a = 2 and t = 6. Work out v.
- 22nd August 1979£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £500 buy?
- 23rd August 1979The point (-7, 2) is rotated 180° about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 24th August 1979Here are 5 numbers: 28, 21, 26, 27, 33. Work out the mean.
- 25th August 1979Of 53 students, 24 study French, 26 study German and 11 study both. How many study neither?
- 26th August 1979Work out 2/4 divided by 2/5. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 27th August 1979A sequence has nth term 8n - 3. Work out the 50th term.
- 28th August 1979A recipe for 6 scones uses 198 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 20 scones?
- 29th August 1979Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 74°, 96° and 30°. Work out the fourth.
- 30th August 1979Here are seven numbers: 28, 8, 11, 4, 14, 22, 7. Work out the median and the range.
- 31st August 1979140 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 30 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?