Daily Practice · Foundation
January 1986 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1986A bag holds 5 red, 3 blue and 7 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 2nd January 1986In a group of 60 students, 40 are boys. 5 boys and 10 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 3rd January 1986Work out 1/2 divided by 7/8. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 4th January 1986Simplify 8a + 3b + 4a - 6b.
- 5th January 1986A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 11 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 6th January 1986The point (4, 3) is reflected in the y-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 7th January 1986A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 8th January 1986In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 7 own 2 cars and 2 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 9th January 1986A length x is 11 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 10th January 1986A line has equation y = 2x - 4. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 11th January 1986A 1100 g bag of rice costs £12.10. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 12th January 1986The bearing of B from A is 043°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 13th January 1986Kwame has 5 scores with a mean of 10. Scores 8, 13, 12, 10 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 14th January 1986A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 10, 7, 12 and 5. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 15th January 1986Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(109) lie?
- 16th January 1986The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 61)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 17th January 1986£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £200 buy?
- 18th January 1986A cuboid measures 3 cm by 15 cm by 11 cm. Work out its volume.
- 19th January 1986The probability that it rains tomorrow is 9/10. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 20th January 1986A scatter graph plots the day of the month and the temperature at noon. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 21st January 1986Work out 2/9 x 2/8. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 22nd January 1986A rectangle is x cm wide and 2 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 23rd January 1986A recipe for 6 pancakes uses 216 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 pancakes?
- 24th January 1986Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 94°. Work out the other.
- 25th January 1986Using only the digits 2, 1, 4, 3 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 26th January 1986A pie chart shows 30 people. 26 of them chose history. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 27th January 1986A length x is 87 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 28th January 1986Use v = u + at with u = 9, a = 4 and t = 2. Work out v.
- 29th January 19868 identical notebooks cost £10.40. Work out the cost of 11 of the same notebooks.
- 30th January 1986Two of the angles in a triangle are 32° and 86°. Work out the third angle.
- 31st January 1986Here are 6 numbers: 25, 16, 17, 19, 26, 23. Work out the mean.