Daily Practice · Foundation
May 1989 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1989£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £260 buy?
- 2nd May 1989Two of the angles in a triangle are 86° and 39°. Work out the third angle.
- 3rd May 1989A bag holds 3 red, 7 blue and 6 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is blue.
- 4th May 1989150 students were asked how they travel. 70 walked, and of those 5 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 5th May 1989Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(35) lie?
- 6th May 1989Simplify 2a + 4b + 2a - 4b.
- 7th May 1989A recipe for 8 pancakes uses 232 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 15 pancakes?
- 8th May 1989A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 3 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 9th May 1989A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 10th May 1989On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 50 people. A bar is 3 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 11th May 1989Work out 2/6 x 1/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 12th May 1989A line has equation y = 2x - 12. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 13th May 19894 identical notebooks cost £5.60. Work out the cost of 6 of the same notebooks.
- 14th May 1989An L-shape is a 10 cm by 12 cm rectangle with a 2 cm by 7 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 15th May 1989Priya has 5 scores with a mean of 20. Scores 25, 15, 15, 25 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 16th May 1989A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 2 with the leaves 3, 5, 6, 7, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
- 17th May 1989A length x is 33 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 18th May 1989The angles in a triangle are 3x°, 3x° and (x + 110)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 19th May 1989A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 50. The real length is 2.5 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 20th May 1989A cuboid measures 12 cm by 10 cm by 6 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 21st May 1989The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/2. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 22nd May 1989A pie chart shows 24 items. One sector has an angle of 135°. How many items does it represent?
- 23rd May 1989Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(219) lie?
- 24th May 1989A rectangle is x cm wide and 4 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 25th May 1989A 500 g bag of rice costs £2.50. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 26th May 1989The point (-8, 7) is rotated 90° clockwise about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 27th May 1989Using only the digits 1, 9, 5, 4 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 28th May 1989Of 62 students, 31 study French, 36 study German and 7 study both. How many study neither?
- 29th May 1989Work out 2/7 divided by 2/8. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 30th May 1989Use v = u + at with u = 14, a = 7 and t = 3. Work out v.
- 31st May 1989£1 is worth 1.85 Australian dollars. How many Australian dollars does £240 buy?