Daily Practice · Foundation
July 1987 5-a-day
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- 1st July 1987A bag holds 4 red, 8 blue and 6 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 2nd July 1987A scatter graph plots the temperature outside and the number of ice creams sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 3rd July 1987A length x is 35 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 4th July 1987Simplify 4a + 3b + 7a - 3b.
- 5th July 1987A 1200 g bag of pasta costs £14.40. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 6th July 1987Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 85°. Work out the other.
- 7th July 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.15. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 8th July 1987A pie chart shows 90 people. 48 of them chose French. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 9th July 1987Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(130) lie?
- 10th July 1987A line has equation y = 4x - 8. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 11th July 1987£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £540 buy?
- 12th July 1987Two of the angles in a triangle are 30° and 47°. Work out the third angle.
- 13th July 1987Leo has 4 scores with a mean of 15. Scores 19, 12, 11 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 14th July 198760 students were asked how they travel. 20 walked, and of those 5 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 15th July 1987Work out 1/4 divided by 3/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 16th July 1987The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 3x° and (x + 30)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 17th July 1987A recipe for 8 flapjacks uses 224 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 3 flapjacks?
- 18th July 1987A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 6 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 19th July 1987The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 20th July 1987On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 2 people. A bar is 8 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 21st July 1987A length x is 17.7 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 22nd July 1987A rectangle is x cm wide and 7 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 23rd July 19877 identical notebooks cost £17.50. Work out the cost of 8 of the same notebooks.
- 24th July 1987An L-shape is a 19 cm by 19 cm rectangle with a 7 cm by 11 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 25th July 1987Using only the digits 3, 8, 1, 5 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 26th July 1987A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 2 with the leaves 3, 4, 6, 7, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 27th July 1987Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(73) lie?
- 28th July 1987Use v = u + at with u = 3, a = 5 and t = 4. Work out v.
- 29th July 1987A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 5 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 30th July 1987A cuboid measures 10 cm by 7 cm by 9 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 31st July 1987Here are 6 numbers: 27, 25, 23, 21, 28, 20. Work out the mean.