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April 1975 5-a-day

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April 1975

30 sheets · 150 questions · Grades 6-7

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  1. 1st April 1975A bill is £312 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
  2. 2nd April 1975Expand and simplify (x + 1)(x - 3)(x + 5).
  3. 3rd April 1975A town's population is 34000 and grows by 8% each year. Work out the population after 3 years, to the nearest whole number.
  4. 4th April 1975A cone has base radius 6 cm and vertical height 9 cm. Work out its volume, leaving your answer in terms of pi.
  5. 5th April 197519 students study Spanish and 6 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  6. 6th April 1975A box plot has a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 68. Work out the range.
  7. 7th April 1975A code is 2 letters (A to Z) followed by 4 digits (0 to 9), and repeats are allowed. How many codes are possible?
  8. 8th April 1975Make x the subject of y = 2x^2 - 12.
  9. 9th April 1975A block has volume 95 cm^3 and density 3 g/cm^3. Work out its mass.
  10. 10th April 1975In triangle ABC, angle A is 77°, angle B is 37° and side a is 17 cm. Use the sine rule to work out side b, to 1 decimal place.
  11. 11th April 19752 of 10 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
  12. 12th April 1975A box plot has minimum 2, lower quartile 5, median 11, upper quartile 21 and maximum 27. Work out the interquartile range.
  13. 13th April 1975Work out (30 x 10^9) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
  14. 14th April 1975Factorise x^2 - 144.
  15. 15th April 1975x : y = 3 : 5. Write y in terms of x.
  16. 16th April 1975A right-angled triangle has sides 3 cm, 4 cm and 5 cm. Work out the angle opposite the 3 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
  17. 17th April 197520 students study Spanish and 6 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  18. 18th April 1975A capture-recapture estimate is made of the beetle population of a woodland. State one assumption the method relies on.
  19. 19th April 1975Write the recurring decimal 0.888... as a fraction in its simplest form.
  20. 20th April 1975A region is defined by y <= 3x - 1. Should the boundary line be solid or dashed, and why?
  21. 21st April 1975A price rises by 10% and then falls by 10%. Work out the overall percentage change, to 2 decimal places.
  22. 22nd April 1975The point (3, -2) is enlarged by scale factor -3 about the centre (-1, -4). Write down the coordinates of the image.
  23. 23rd April 19751 of 7 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
  24. 24th April 1975A histogram class is 20 units wide and contains 10 values. Work out the frequency density.
  25. 25th April 1975Work out 25^(3/2).
  26. 26th April 1975Factorise x^2 + 13x + 42.
  27. 27th April 1975y is inversely proportional to x. When x = 5, y = 18. Work out y when x = 6.
  28. 28th April 1975Two similar solids have lengths in the ratio 1 : 4. The larger has a volume of 128 cm^3. Work out the volume of the smaller.
  29. 29th April 197521 students study Spanish and 5 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  30. 30th April 1975Four classes in order have frequencies 3, 7, 10, 5. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.

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