Daily Practice · Foundation
May 1986 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1986Here are seven numbers: 25, 28, 22, 13, 19, 14, 17. Work out the median and the range.
- 2nd May 1986Of 60 students, 29 study French, 22 study German and 5 study both. How many study neither?
- 3rd May 1986Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(27) lie?
- 4th May 1986Solve the inequality 8x - 4 > 52.
- 5th May 1986A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 50. The real length is 2.5 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 6th May 1986Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 129°, 102° and 51°. Work out the fourth.
- 7th May 1986A bag holds 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is green.
- 8th May 198690 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 20 said yes. 10 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 9th May 1986Work out 6/7 divided by 2/3. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 10th May 1986Simplify 9a + 2b + 2a - 2b.
- 11th May 1986A 400 g bag of oats costs £4.00. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 12th May 1986A trapezium has parallel sides of 10 cm and 12 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 13th May 1986A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 14th May 1986In a group of 140 students, 30 are boys. 15 boys and 40 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 15th May 1986A length x is 64 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 16th May 1986A line has equation y = 2x - 8. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 17th May 1986£1 is worth 1.15 euros. How many euros does £40 buy?
- 18th May 1986The point (-7, 4) is reflected in the y-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 19th May 1986Sanjay has 4 scores with a mean of 9. Scores 3, 15, 10 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 20th May 1986In a survey 7 households own 1 car, 6 own 2 cars and 4 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 21st May 1986Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(58) lie?
- 22nd May 1986The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 19)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 23rd May 1986A recipe for 10 scones uses 360 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 15 scones?
- 24th May 1986The bearing of B from A is 236°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 25th May 1986The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 26th May 1986A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 12, 2, 12 and 11. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 27th May 1986Work out 4/5 divided by 1/7. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 28th May 1986A rectangle is x cm wide and 2 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 29th May 19863 identical batteries cost £3.60. Work out the cost of 2 of the same batteries.
- 30th May 1986A cuboid measures 4 cm by 10 cm by 14 cm. Work out its volume.
- 31st May 1986Using only the digits 8, 4, 3, 6 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?