Daily Practice · Foundation
October 1981 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1981
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- 1st October 1981100 students were asked how they travel. 50 walked, and of those 20 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 2nd October 1981Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(90) lie?
- 3rd October 1981Simplify 8a + 9b + 5a - 9b.
- 4th October 1981A 600 g bag of coffee costs £5.70. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 5th October 1981A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 6th October 1981A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 7th October 1981On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 4 people. A bar is 3 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 8th October 1981Work out 3/5 divided by 1/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 9th October 1981A line has equation y = 3x - 3. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 10th October 1981£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £460 buy?
- 11th October 1981An L-shape is a 19 cm by 10 cm rectangle with a 11 cm by 2 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 12th October 1981Jacob has 5 scores with a mean of 13. Scores 8, 18, 8, 18 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 13th October 1981A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 2 with the leaves 1, 4, 6, 7, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 14th October 1981A length x is 16.3 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 15th October 1981The angles in a triangle are 2x°, x° and (x + 140)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 16th October 1981A recipe for 12 muffins uses 204 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 15 muffins?
- 17th October 1981A cuboid measures 5 cm by 4 cm by 6 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 18th October 1981The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/5. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 19th October 1981A pie chart shows 72 items. One sector has an angle of 25°. How many items does it represent?
- 20th October 1981Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(31) lie?
- 21st October 1981A rectangle is x cm wide and 4 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 22nd October 19815 identical batteries cost £8.00. Work out the cost of 3 of the same batteries.
- 23rd October 1981The point (2, -7) is rotated 90° anticlockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 24th October 1981Using only the digits 3, 6, 5, 2 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 25th October 1981Of 45 students, 13 study French, 19 study German and 6 study both. How many study neither?
- 26th October 1981Work out 1/8 divided by 1/8. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 27th October 1981Use v = u + at with u = 15, a = 3 and t = 7. Work out v.
- 28th October 1981A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 2 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 29th October 1981Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 138°, 113° and 43°. Work out the fourth.
- 30th October 1981Here are 7 numbers: 11, 16, 12, 14, 10, 18, 17. Work out the mean.
- 31st October 1981200 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 35 said yes. 55 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?