Daily Practice · Foundation
January 1985 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1985110 students were asked how they travel. 30 walked, and of those 15 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 2nd January 1985Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(123) lie?
- 3rd January 1985The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 35)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 4th January 19857 identical cupcakes cost £12.60. Work out the cost of 8 of the same cupcakes.
- 5th January 1985A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 9 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 6th January 1985The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/10. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 7th January 1985On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 50 people. A bar is 5 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 8th January 1985Work out 1/3 x 1/8. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 9th January 1985A rectangle is x cm wide and 4 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 10th January 1985A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 6 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 11th January 1985An L-shape is a 9 cm by 12 cm rectangle with a 5 cm by 3 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 12th January 1985Using only the digits 8, 1, 5 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 13th January 1985A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 5 with the leaves 0, 2, 3, 5, 7. Work out the median of the five values.
- 14th January 1985A length x is 82 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 15th January 1985Use v = u + at with u = 10, a = 4 and t = 6. Work out v.
- 16th January 1985A 300 g bag of oats costs £3.60. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 17th January 1985A cuboid measures 2 cm by 4 cm by 5 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 18th January 1985Here are 5 numbers: 32, 26, 28, 20, 24. Work out the mean.
- 19th January 1985A pie chart shows 20 items. One sector has an angle of 144°. How many items does it represent?
- 20th January 1985Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(105) lie?
- 21st January 1985A sequence has nth term 6n + 8. Work out the 20th term.
- 22nd January 1985£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £320 buy?
- 23rd January 1985The point (-5, -5) is rotated 90° anticlockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 24th January 1985Here are seven numbers: 25, 28, 22, 19, 17, 13, 11. Work out the median and the range.
- 25th January 1985Of 66 students, 24 study French, 32 study German and 7 study both. How many study neither?
- 26th January 1985Work out 6/8 divided by 1/2. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 27th January 1985Solve the inequality 4x + 7 > 51.
- 28th January 1985A recipe for 4 flapjacks uses 84 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 flapjacks?
- 29th January 1985Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 54°, 53° and 203°. Work out the fourth.
- 30th January 1985A bag holds 6 red, 8 blue and 3 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 31st January 198580 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?