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October 1988

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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  1. 1st October 1988Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(32) lie?
  2. 2nd October 1988Solve the inequality 6x + 6 > 48.
  3. 3rd October 1988£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £440 buy?
  4. 4th October 1988A cuboid measures 11 cm by 3 cm by 14 cm. Work out its volume.
  5. 5th October 1988A bag holds 2 red, 3 blue and 8 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
  6. 6th October 1988A scatter graph plots a car's engine size and the miles it does per gallon. What type of correlation would you expect?
  7. 7th October 1988Work out 6/7 x 1/6. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  8. 8th October 1988Simplify 3a + 8b + 8a - 7b.
  9. 9th October 1988A recipe for 8 muffins uses 144 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 5 muffins?
  10. 10th October 1988Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 140°. Work out the other.
  11. 11th October 1988A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  12. 12th October 1988A pie chart shows 20 people. 5 of them chose science. Work out the angle of that sector.
  13. 13th October 1988A length x is 330 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
  14. 14th October 1988A line has equation y = 6x - 36. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  15. 15th October 19883 identical notebooks cost £5.70. Work out the cost of 4 of the same notebooks.
  16. 16th October 1988Two of the angles in a triangle are 34° and 56°. Work out the third angle.
  17. 17th October 1988Anika has 5 scores with a mean of 6. Scores 6, 2, 8, 10 are known. Work out the missing score.
  18. 18th October 1988180 students were asked how they travel. 80 walked, and of those 5 were late. How many walkers were on time?
  19. 19th October 1988Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(39) lie?
  20. 20th October 1988The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 12)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  21. 21st October 1988A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 100. The real length is 6 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  22. 22nd October 1988A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  23. 23rd October 1988The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/4. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  24. 24th October 1988On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 4 people. A bar is 4 squares tall. How many people does it show?
  25. 25th October 1988Work out 2/6 divided by 4/5. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  26. 26th October 1988A rectangle is x cm wide and 9 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
  27. 27th October 1988A 900 g bag of rice costs £10.35. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  28. 28th October 1988An L-shape is a 18 cm by 11 cm rectangle with a 12 cm by 6 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
  29. 29th October 1988Using only the digits 2, 7, 4, 1 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
  30. 30th October 1988A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 5 with the leaves 0, 4, 6, 7, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
  31. 31st October 1988A length x is 200 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.

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