Daily Practice · Foundation
August 1987 5-a-day
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Every sheet in August 1987
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- 1st August 1987A pie chart shows 120 items. One sector has an angle of 33°. How many items does it represent?
- 2nd August 1987Work out 2/5 divided by 2/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 3rd August 1987A sequence has nth term 7n + 8. Work out the 100th term.
- 4th August 1987A 700 g bag of oats costs £4.90. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 5th August 1987The point (8, -3) is rotated 90° clockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 6th August 1987Here are seven numbers: 7, 8, 19, 5, 11, 17, 28. Work out the median and the range.
- 7th August 1987Of 79 students, 29 study French, 36 study German and 6 study both. How many study neither?
- 8th August 1987A length x is 13.6 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 9th August 1987Solve the inequality 7x - 14 > 56.
- 10th August 1987£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £240 buy?
- 11th August 1987Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 103°, 111° and 107°. Work out the fourth.
- 12th August 1987A bag holds 4 red, 8 blue and 6 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 13th August 1987140 people were surveyed. 30 were adults, of whom 5 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 14th August 1987Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(34) lie?
- 15th August 1987Simplify 3a + 6b + 6a - 4b.
- 16th August 1987A recipe for 12 scones uses 372 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 5 scones?
- 17th August 1987A trapezium has parallel sides of 12 cm and 17 cm, 10 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 18th August 1987A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 19th August 1987In a group of 110 students, 70 are boys. 10 boys and 15 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 20th August 1987Work out 4/8 divided by 1/8. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 21st August 1987A line has equation y = 6x - 6. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 22nd August 19874 identical batteries cost £8.00. Work out the cost of 10 of the same batteries.
- 23rd August 1987The point (-5, 8) is reflected in the y-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 24th August 1987Isla has 4 scores with a mean of 10. Scores 9, 14, 6 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 25th August 1987In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 7 own 2 cars and 9 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 26th August 1987A length x is 9 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 27th August 1987The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 2x° and (x + 108)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 28th August 1987A model of a lorry is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 10 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 29th August 1987The bearing of B from A is 252°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 30th August 1987The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 31st August 1987A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 12, 6, 9 and 11. How many values are in the whole data set?