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October 1959

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 6-7

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  1. 1st October 1959A cone has base radius 3 cm and vertical height 6 cm. Work out its volume, leaving your answer in terms of pi.
  2. 2nd October 195923 students study Spanish and 6 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  3. 3rd October 1959A box plot has minimum 13, lower quartile 18, median 24, upper quartile 30 and maximum 32. Work out the interquartile range.
  4. 4th October 1959Write the recurring decimal 0.111... as a fraction in its simplest form.
  5. 5th October 1959Make x the subject of y = 7x^2 - 8.
  6. 6th October 1959x : y = 4 : 9. Write y in terms of x.
  7. 7th October 1959In triangle ABC, angle A is 65°, angle B is 39° and side a is 11 cm. Use the sine rule to work out side b, to 1 decimal place.
  8. 8th October 19591 of 8 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
  9. 9th October 1959A capture-recapture estimate is made of the newt population of a stream. State one assumption the method relies on.
  10. 10th October 1959Work out 36^(3/2).
  11. 11th October 1959Factorise x^2 - 100.
  12. 12th October 1959A price rises by 10% and then falls by 10%. Work out the overall percentage change, to 2 decimal places.
  13. 13th October 1959A right-angled triangle has sides 6 cm, 8 cm and 10 cm. Work out the angle opposite the 6 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
  14. 14th October 195919 students study Spanish and 3 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  15. 15th October 1959A histogram class is 4 units wide and contains 6 values. Work out the frequency density.
  16. 16th October 1959Write sqrt(50) in the form a sqrt(b), where b is as small as possible.
  17. 17th October 1959A region is defined by y <= 4x - 8. Should the boundary line be solid or dashed, and why?
  18. 18th October 1959y is inversely proportional to x. When x = 8, y = 2. Work out y when x = 2.
  19. 19th October 1959The point (1, 3) is enlarged by scale factor -1 about the centre (4, 3). Write down the coordinates of the image.
  20. 20th October 19591 of 5 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
  21. 21st October 1959Four classes in order have frequencies 8, 12, 10, 6. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
  22. 22nd October 1959A meal deal has 5 mains, 7 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  23. 23rd October 1959Factorise x^2 - x - 12.
  24. 24th October 1959y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 3, y = 54. Work out y when x = 4.
  25. 25th October 1959Two similar solids have lengths in the ratio 1 : 2. The larger has a volume of 72 cm^3. Work out the volume of the smaller.
  26. 26th October 195912 students study Spanish and 6 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  27. 27th October 195915 fish are marked and released. Later 54 are caught, of which 9 are marked. Estimate the population.
  28. 28th October 1959A mass is 540 kg, correct to the nearest 10. Write down the lower bound.
  29. 29th October 1959Work out the equation of the line parallel to y = 2x - 9 that passes through (5, 18).
  30. 30th October 1959y is directly proportional to x. When x = 9, y = 99. Work out y when x = 7.
  31. 31st October 1959A right-angled triangle has a hypotenuse of 13 cm and one shorter side of 12 cm. Work out the other shorter side.

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