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April 1962

30 sheets · 150 questions · Grades 6-7

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  1. 1st April 196231 students study Spanish and 11 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  2. 2nd April 1962A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 224 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
  3. 3rd April 1962A code is 2 letters (A to Z) followed by 2 digits (0 to 9), and repeats are allowed. How many codes are possible?
  4. 4th April 1962Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 6.
  5. 5th April 1962A town's population is 38000 and grows by 8% each year. Work out the population after 5 years, to the nearest whole number.
  6. 6th April 1962In triangle ABC, angle A is 38°, angle B is 60° and side a is 13 cm. Use the sine rule to work out side b, to 1 decimal place.
  7. 7th April 19623 of 5 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
  8. 8th April 1962A box plot has a minimum of 19 and a maximum of 73. Work out the range.
  9. 9th April 1962Work out (48 x 10^8) / (8 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
  10. 10th April 1962Factorise x^2 - 64.
  11. 11th April 1962A block has volume 180 cm^3 and density 8 g/cm^3. Work out its mass.
  12. 12th April 1962A right-angled triangle has sides 9 cm, 40 cm and 41 cm. Work out the angle opposite the 9 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
  13. 13th April 196216 students study Spanish and 6 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  14. 14th April 1962A box plot has minimum 5, lower quartile 10, median 18, upper quartile 20 and maximum 25. Work out the interquartile range.
  15. 15th April 1962Write the recurring decimal 0.666... as a fraction in its simplest form.
  16. 16th April 1962A region is defined by y <= -x + 6. Should the boundary line be solid or dashed, and why?
  17. 17th April 1962x : y = 5 : 8. Write y in terms of x.
  18. 18th April 1962The point (4, 5) is enlarged by scale factor -1 about the centre (4, 2). Write down the coordinates of the image.
  19. 19th April 19621 of 7 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
  20. 20th April 1962A capture-recapture estimate is made of the beetle population of a woodland. State one assumption the method relies on.
  21. 21st April 1962Work out 25^(3/2).
  22. 22nd April 1962Factorise x^2 + 8x + 12.
  23. 23rd April 1962A price rises by 10% and then falls by 15%. Work out the overall percentage change, to 2 decimal places.
  24. 24th April 1962Two similar solids have lengths in the ratio 1 : 2. The larger has a volume of 120 cm^3. Work out the volume of the smaller.
  25. 25th April 196216 students study Spanish and 9 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  26. 26th April 1962A histogram class is 10 units wide and contains 20 values. Work out the frequency density.
  27. 27th April 1962Write sqrt(45) in the form a sqrt(b), where b is as small as possible.
  28. 28th April 1962Work out the equation of the line parallel to y = -4x - 7 that passes through (2, -18).
  29. 29th April 1962y is inversely proportional to x. When x = 9, y = 20. Work out y when x = 5.
  30. 30th April 1962A right-angled triangle has a hypotenuse of 15 cm and one shorter side of 12 cm. Work out the other shorter side.

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