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January 1987 5-a-day

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January 1987

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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  1. 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.
  2. 2nd January 1987Here are 7 numbers: 7, 15, 7, 17, 11, 5, 15. Work out the mean.
  3. 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?
  4. 4th January 1987A length x is 17.5 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
  5. 5th January 1987A sequence has nth term 5n + 1. Work out the 100th term.
  6. 6th January 1987A 600 g bag of coffee costs £5.40. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  7. 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.
  8. 8th January 1987Here are seven numbers: 25, 7, 28, 14, 4, 5, 19. Work out the median and the range.
  9. 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.
  10. 10th January 1987Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(185) lie?
  11. 11th January 1987Solve the inequality 8x + 5 <= 117.
  12. 12th January 1987£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £520 buy?
  13. 13th January 1987A cuboid measures 8 cm by 5 cm by 12 cm. Work out its total surface area.
  14. 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.
  15. 15th January 1987A pie chart shows 90 items. One sector has an angle of 44°. How many items does it represent?
  16. 16th January 1987Work out 7/9 x 7/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  17. 17th January 1987Simplify 2a + 9b + 2a - 3b.
  18. 18th January 1987A recipe for 6 scones uses 198 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 5 scones?
  19. 19th January 1987The point (0, -6) is rotated 90° clockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
  20. 20th January 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  21. 21st January 1987Of 52 students, 27 study French, 29 study German and 15 study both. How many study neither?
  22. 22nd January 1987A length x is 13.2 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
  23. 23rd January 1987A line has equation y = 6x - 6. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  24. 24th January 19873 identical batteries cost £7.20. Work out the cost of 6 of the same batteries.
  25. 25th January 1987Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 53°, 115° and 129°. Work out the fourth.
  26. 26th January 1987Freya has 5 scores with a mean of 13. Scores 10, 16, 11, 15 are known. Work out the missing score.
  27. 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?
  28. 28th January 1987Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(28) lie?
  29. 29th January 1987The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 78)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  30. 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?
  31. 31st January 1987A trapezium has parallel sides of 13 cm and 22 cm, 18 cm apart. Work out its area.

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