Daily Practice · Foundation
August 1989 5-a-day
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Every sheet in August 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1989A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 2nd August 1989Of 52 students, 32 study French, 23 study German and 7 study both. How many study neither?
- 3rd August 1989Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(52) lie?
- 4th August 1989A line has equation y = 2x - 6. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 5th August 1989A recipe for 6 scones uses 132 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 15 scones?
- 6th August 1989Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 64°, 118° and 33°. Work out the fourth.
- 7th August 1989Musa has 4 scores with a mean of 20. Scores 14, 26, 15 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 8th August 1989240 people were surveyed. 90 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 70 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 9th August 1989Work out 4/5 divided by 1/3. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 10th August 1989The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 55)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 11th August 19898 identical batteries cost £6.80. Work out the cost of 4 of the same batteries.
- 12th August 1989A trapezium has parallel sides of 7 cm and 10 cm, 10 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 13th August 1989The probability that it rains tomorrow is 2/5. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 14th August 1989In a group of 140 students, 50 are boys. 15 boys and 45 girls bring a packed lunch. How many students do not?
- 15th August 1989A length x is 32 cm, rounded to the nearest whole number. Write down the error interval for x.
- 16th August 1989A rectangle is x cm wide and 5 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 17th August 1989A model of a narrowboat is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 2.75 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 18th August 1989The point (5, 5) is reflected in the x-axis. Write down the coordinates of the image.
- 19th August 1989Using only the digits 3, 1, 9, 2 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 20th August 1989In a survey 6 households own 1 car, 2 own 2 cars and 7 own 3 cars. Work out the mean number of cars, to 2 decimal places.
- 21st August 1989Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(14) lie?
- 22nd August 1989Use v = u + at with u = 11, a = 3 and t = 8. Work out v.
- 23rd August 1989A 800 g bag of rice costs £4.00. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 24th August 1989The bearing of B from A is 111°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 25th August 1989Here are 7 numbers: 19, 21, 15, 20, 18, 17, 16. Work out the mean.
- 26th August 1989A frequency polygon has plotted frequencies of 7, 10, 5 and 10. How many values are in the whole data set?
- 27th August 1989Work out 5/8 x 1/3. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 28th August 1989A sequence has nth term 7n + 4. Work out the 25th term.
- 29th August 1989£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £540 buy?
- 30th August 1989A cuboid measures 4 cm by 12 cm by 9 cm. Work out its volume.
- 31st August 1989Here are seven numbers: 14, 13, 7, 2, 11, 4, 5. Work out the median and the range.