Daily Practice · Foundation
March 1987 5-a-day
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- 1st March 1987A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 50. The real length is 3.5 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 2nd March 1987Two of the angles in a triangle are 56° and 64°. Work out the third angle.
- 3rd March 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 4th March 198770 students were asked how they travel. 60 walked, and of those 5 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 5th March 1987Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(83) lie?
- 6th March 1987A line has equation y = 5x - 30. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 7th March 1987A 900 g bag of oats costs £3.15. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 8th March 1987A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 4 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 9th March 1987Musa has 4 scores with a mean of 19. Scores 17, 17, 21 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 10th March 1987On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 4 people. A bar is 6 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 11th March 1987Work out 2/3 divided by 3/6. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 12th March 1987The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 66)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 13th March 1987£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £420 buy?
- 14th March 1987An L-shape is a 12 cm by 16 cm rectangle with a 4 cm by 5 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 15th March 1987The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/10. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 16th March 1987A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 3 with the leaves 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 17th March 1987A length x is 61 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 18th March 1987A rectangle is x cm wide and 4 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 19th March 1987A recipe for 10 pancakes uses 360 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 3 pancakes?
- 20th March 1987A cuboid measures 6 cm by 10 cm by 4 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 21st March 1987Using only the digits 5, 4, 9, 3 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 22nd March 1987A pie chart shows 40 items. One sector has an angle of 72°. How many items does it represent?
- 23rd March 1987Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(33) lie?
- 24th March 1987Use v = u + at with u = 5, a = 5 and t = 2. Work out v.
- 25th March 19874 identical cupcakes cost £2.20. Work out the cost of 3 of the same cupcakes.
- 26th March 1987The point (-8, -3) is rotated 90° clockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 27th March 1987Here are 6 numbers: 14, 22, 14, 22, 14, 22. Work out the mean.
- 28th March 1987Of 61 students, 23 study French, 40 study German and 15 study both. How many study neither?
- 29th March 1987Work out 4/5 x 4/9. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 30th March 1987A sequence has nth term 2n - 11. Work out the 12th term.
- 31st March 1987A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 50. The real length is 5 m. How long is the model, in cm?