Daily Practice · Foundation
May 1985 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1985A scatter graph plots a house's floor area and its asking price. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 2nd May 1985A length x is 15 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 3rd May 1985A line has equation y = 6x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 4th May 19855 identical notebooks cost £6.50. Work out the cost of 6 of the same notebooks.
- 5th May 1985Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 85°. Work out the other.
- 6th May 1985Zara has 5 scores with a mean of 11. Scores 7, 16, 11, 15 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 7th May 1985A pie chart shows 60 people. 32 of them chose history. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 8th May 1985Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(118) lie?
- 9th May 1985The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 50)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 10th May 1985A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 0.75 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 11th May 1985Two of the angles in a triangle are 77° and 66°. Work out the third angle.
- 12th May 1985The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/2. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 13th May 1985190 students were asked how they travel. 40 walked, and of those 20 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 14th May 1985Work out 3/4 divided by 2/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 15th May 1985A rectangle is x cm wide and 5 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 16th May 1985A 900 g bag of pasta costs £6.30. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 17th May 1985A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 18th May 1985Using only the digits 6, 3, 4, 8 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 19th May 1985On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 2 people. A bar is 9 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 20th May 1985A length x is 490 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
- 21st May 1985Use v = u + at with u = 6, a = 9 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 22nd May 1985£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £380 buy?
- 23rd May 1985An L-shape is a 13 cm by 12 cm rectangle with a 2 cm by 2 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 24th May 1985Here are 5 numbers: 17, 19, 14, 24, 21. Work out the mean.
- 25th May 1985A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 5 with the leaves 2, 4, 5, 7, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 26th May 1985Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(190) lie?
- 27th May 1985A sequence has nth term 3n - 11. Work out the 100th term.
- 28th May 1985A recipe for 12 flapjacks uses 420 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 flapjacks?
- 29th May 1985A cuboid measures 8 cm by 2 cm by 12 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 30th May 1985Here are seven numbers: 11, 14, 28, 19, 2, 13, 7. Work out the median and the range.
- 31st May 1985A pie chart shows 40 items. One sector has an angle of 72°. How many items does it represent?