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May 1985 5-a-day

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May 1985

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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

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