Daily Practice · Foundation
October 1985 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 19854 identical cupcakes cost £6.00. Work out the cost of 6 of the same cupcakes.
- 2nd October 1985An L-shape is a 11 cm by 9 cm rectangle with a 2 cm by 6 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 3rd October 1985Here are seven numbers: 11, 5, 17, 14, 7, 19, 4. Work out the median and the range.
- 4th October 1985A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 4 with the leaves 1, 6, 7, 8, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 5th October 1985Work out 2/5 x 2/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 6th October 1985Solve the inequality 7x - 5 > 44.
- 7th October 1985A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 0.6 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 8th October 1985A cuboid measures 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 9th October 1985A bag holds 5 red, 7 blue and 4 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is blue.
- 10th October 1985A pie chart shows 90 items. One sector has an angle of 12°. How many items does it represent?
- 11th October 1985A length x is 39 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 12th October 1985Simplify 9a + 4b + 2a - 3b.
- 13th October 1985A 800 g bag of pasta costs £2.40. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 14th October 1985The point (-3, 8) is rotated 90° anticlockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 15th October 1985A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 16th October 1985Of 36 students, 18 study French, 28 study German and 12 study both. How many study neither?
- 17th October 1985Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(102) lie?
- 18th October 1985A line has equation y = 5x - 20. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 19th October 1985£1 is worth 1.15 euros. How many euros does £140 buy?
- 20th October 1985Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 65°, 101° and 34°. Work out the fourth.
- 21st October 1985Jacob has 5 scores with a mean of 12. Scores 14, 12, 10, 14 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 22nd October 1985230 people were surveyed. 70 were adults, of whom 35 said yes. 25 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 23rd October 1985Work out 5/7 divided by 3/8. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 24th October 1985The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 3x° and (x + 18)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 25th October 1985A recipe for 4 flapjacks uses 68 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 3 flapjacks?
- 26th October 1985A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 15 cm, 6 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 27th October 1985The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/8. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 28th October 1985In a group of 120 students, 60 are boys. 15 boys and 5 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 29th October 1985A length x is 38 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 30th October 1985A rectangle is x cm wide and 2 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 31st October 19858 identical batteries cost £6.00. Work out the cost of 7 of the same batteries.