Daily Practice · Foundation
August 1986 5-a-day
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Every sheet in August 1986
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- 1st August 1986Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(19) lie?
- 2nd August 1986Simplify 3a + 8b + 4a - 8b.
- 3rd August 1986A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 2.4 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 4th August 1986A cuboid measures 13 cm by 6 cm by 14 cm. Work out its volume.
- 5th August 1986A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 6th August 1986A scatter graph plots a phone's age and its resale value. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 7th August 1986Work out 1/2 x 1/3. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 8th August 1986A line has equation y = 4x - 24. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 9th August 1986A 1100 g bag of rice costs £8.80. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 10th August 1986Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 126°. Work out the other.
- 11th August 1986Chloe has 4 scores with a mean of 11. Scores 8, 14, 12 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 12th August 1986A pie chart shows 36 people. 2 of them chose art. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 13th August 1986A length x is 78 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 14th August 1986The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 3x° and (x + 72)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 15th August 1986£1 is worth 1.15 euros. How many euros does £280 buy?
- 16th August 1986Two of the angles in a triangle are 29° and 34°. Work out the third angle.
- 17th August 1986The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/8. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 18th August 1986130 students were asked how they travel. 70 walked, and of those 30 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 19th August 1986Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(20) lie?
- 20th August 1986A rectangle is x cm wide and 4 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 21st August 1986A recipe for 10 pancakes uses 350 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 24 pancakes?
- 22nd August 1986A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 23rd August 1986Using only the digits 7, 8, 6 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 24th August 1986On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 20 people. A bar is 5 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 25th August 1986Work out 1/5 x 4/8. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 26th August 1986Use v = u + at with u = 5, a = 5 and t = 5. Work out v.
- 27th August 19867 identical cupcakes cost £8.75. Work out the cost of 8 of the same cupcakes.
- 28th August 1986An L-shape is a 10 cm by 16 cm rectangle with a 7 cm by 9 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 29th August 1986Here are 7 numbers: 5, 14, 8, 14, 2, 11, 2. Work out the mean.
- 30th August 1986A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 6 with the leaves 1, 2, 3, 6, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 31st August 1986A length x is 74 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.