Daily Practice · Foundation
December 1985 5-a-day
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- 1st December 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.
- 2nd December 1985Hassan has 4 scores with a mean of 15. Scores 18, 10, 12 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 3rd December 1985On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 50 people. A bar is 9 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 4th December 1985A length x is 17.7 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 5th December 1985The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 40)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 6th December 1985A model of an aircraft is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 11 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 7th December 1985An L-shape is a 18 cm by 12 cm rectangle with a 14 cm by 2 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 8th December 1985The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/10. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 9th December 1985A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 3 with the leaves 1, 2, 3, 7, 8. Work out the median of the five values.
- 10th December 1985Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(82) lie?
- 11th December 1985A rectangle is x cm wide and 4 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 12th December 1985A 700 g bag of oats costs £4.20. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 13th December 1985A cuboid measures 3 cm by 8 cm by 6 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 14th December 1985Using only the digits 6, 1, 9, 3 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 15th December 1985A pie chart shows 90 items. One sector has an angle of 28°. How many items does it represent?
- 16th December 1985Work out 3/6 divided by 2/3. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 17th December 1985Use v = u + at with u = 7, a = 2 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 18th December 1985£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £300 buy?
- 19th December 1985The point (-4, -3) is rotated 180° about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 20th December 1985Here are 5 numbers: 18, 23, 24, 28, 22. Work out the mean.
- 21st December 1985Of 42 students, 26 study French, 25 study German and 14 study both. How many study neither?
- 22nd December 1985A length x is 89 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 23rd December 1985A sequence has nth term 7n - 4. Work out the 10th term.
- 24th December 1985A recipe for 6 flapjacks uses 228 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 flapjacks?
- 25th December 1985Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 75°, 126° and 71°. Work out the fourth.
- 26th December 1985Here are seven numbers: 13, 7, 17, 14, 11, 4, 8. Work out the median and the range.
- 27th December 1985180 people were surveyed. 50 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 28th December 1985Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(172) lie?
- 29th December 1985Solve the inequality 4x + 8 >= 48.
- 30th December 19853 identical notebooks cost £3.90. Work out the cost of 5 of the same notebooks.
- 31st December 1985A trapezium has parallel sides of 9 cm and 15 cm, 16 cm apart. Work out its area.