Daily Practice · Foundation
January 1987 5-a-day
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- 1st January 1987A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 8 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 2nd January 1987Here are 7 numbers: 7, 15, 7, 17, 11, 5, 15. Work out the mean.
- 3rd January 1987On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 4 people. A bar is 7 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 4th January 1987A length x is 17.5 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 5th January 1987A sequence has nth term 5n + 1. Work out the 100th term.
- 6th January 1987A 600 g bag of coffee costs £5.40. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 7th January 1987An L-shape is a 14 cm by 14 cm rectangle with a 3 cm by 10 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 8th January 1987Here are seven numbers: 25, 7, 28, 14, 4, 5, 19. Work out the median and the range.
- 9th January 1987A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 6 with the leaves 0, 1, 7, 8, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 10th January 1987Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(185) lie?
- 11th January 1987Solve the inequality 8x + 5 <= 117.
- 12th January 1987£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £520 buy?
- 13th January 1987A cuboid measures 8 cm by 5 cm by 12 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 14th January 1987A bag holds 7 red, 2 blue and 9 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 15th January 1987A pie chart shows 90 items. One sector has an angle of 44°. How many items does it represent?
- 16th January 1987Work out 7/9 x 7/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 17th January 1987Simplify 2a + 9b + 2a - 3b.
- 18th January 1987A recipe for 6 scones uses 198 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 5 scones?
- 19th January 1987The point (0, -6) is rotated 90° clockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 20th January 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 21st January 1987Of 52 students, 27 study French, 29 study German and 15 study both. How many study neither?
- 22nd January 1987A length x is 13.2 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 23rd January 1987A line has equation y = 6x - 6. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 24th January 19873 identical batteries cost £7.20. Work out the cost of 6 of the same batteries.
- 25th January 1987Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 53°, 115° and 129°. Work out the fourth.
- 26th January 1987Freya has 5 scores with a mean of 13. Scores 10, 16, 11, 15 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 27th January 1987230 people were surveyed. 50 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 35 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 28th January 1987Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(28) lie?
- 29th January 1987The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 78)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 30th January 1987A model of an aircraft is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 8 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 31st January 1987A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 22 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.