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July 1980

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 8-9

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  1. 1st July 1980The probability of winning a game is 1/4. A player expects 4 wins. How many games did they play?
  2. 2nd July 1980On a histogram, a 5-wide bar and a 20-wide bar have the same frequency density of 1.5. How many more values are in the wider class?
  3. 3rd July 1980Simplify sqrt(32) + sqrt(2), giving your answer in the form a sqrt(b).
  4. 4th July 1980Simplify (x^2 - 7x + 12)/(x - 4).
  5. 5th July 1980A train slows steadily from 32 m/s to rest in 8 seconds. Work out its deceleration.
  6. 6th July 1980In a vector proof you find that vector PQ = a + b and vector RS = 5a + 5b. What does this show about PQ and RS?
  7. 7th July 1980A bag holds 8 red and n blue counters. The probability of taking a red is 8/15. Work out n.
  8. 8th July 1980A histogram has two bars: one 5 units wide with frequency density 1.5, one 20 units wide with density 3.5. How many values in total?
  9. 9th July 1980A rectangle is 27 cm by 19 cm, each correct to the nearest cm. Work out the upper bound of its area.
  10. 10th July 1980In an algebraic proof, how would you write three consecutive even numbers in terms of an integer n?
  11. 11th July 1980y is inversely proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 16. Work out y when x = 2.
  12. 12th July 1980A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 6 cm. Work out the length of the longest diagonal inside it, to 1 decimal place.
  13. 13th July 1980A bag holds 4 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Given the first was red, what is the probability the second is blue?
  14. 14th July 1980On a histogram, a 5-wide bar and a 15-wide bar have the same frequency density of 2.5. How many more values are in the wider class?
  15. 15th July 1980Expand and simplify (9 + sqrt(11))(9 - sqrt(11)).
  16. 16th July 1980Make x the subject of 4x + 2 = y(x + 2).
  17. 17th July 1980y is directly proportional to x^3. When x = 4, y = 384. Work out y when x = 5.
  18. 18th July 1980A cuboid measures 8 cm by 12 cm by 7 cm tall. Work out the angle between its longest internal diagonal and the base, to 1 decimal place.
  19. 19th July 1980A bag holds 4 red, 6 blue and 3 green counters. Two are taken without replacement. Given neither is green, what is the probability both are red?
  20. 20th July 1980A histogram has two bars: one 20 units wide with frequency density 2.5, one 10 units wide with density 3.5. How many values in total?
  21. 21st July 1980A block has mass 620 g (to the nearest 10 g) and volume 13 cm^3 (to the nearest cm^3). Work out the upper bound of its density, to 2 decimal places.
  22. 22nd July 1980Write 7/(x + 6) + 4/(x - 2) as a single fraction.
  23. 23rd July 1980y is directly proportional to sqrt(x). When x = 9, y = 9. Work out y when x = 16.
  24. 24th July 1980The point (6, 8) lies on the circle x^2 + y^2 = 100. Work out the gradient of the tangent to the circle at that point.
  25. 25th July 1980A bag holds 7 counters, r of them red. Two are taken without replacement and P(both red) = 2/7. Work out r.
  26. 26th July 1980On a histogram, a 5-wide bar and a 20-wide bar have the same frequency density of 2. How many more values are in the wider class?
  27. 27th July 1980x = 200 and y = 49, each correct to the nearest whole number. Work out the upper bound of x - y.
  28. 28th July 1980Solve 16x^2 + 24x + 9 = 0.
  29. 29th July 1980A train slows steadily from 32 m/s to rest in 4 seconds. Work out its deceleration.
  30. 30th July 1980In a circle theorem proof, a step uses the fact that the three angles of triangle OAB are being summed. State the reason being quoted.
  31. 31st July 1980The probability of winning a game is 5/8. A player expects 20 wins. How many games did they play?

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