Daily Practice · Higher

July 1982 5-a-day

← Today's Higher sheet

July 1982

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 6-7

Printing for a group?

The batch download puts all 5 tiers' July 1982 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.

Every sheet in July 1982

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st July 1982A town's population is 26000 and grows by 3% each year. Work out the population after 6 years, to the nearest whole number.
  2. 2nd July 1982In triangle ABC, angle A is 36°, angle B is 70° and side a is 6 cm. Use the sine rule to work out side b, to 1 decimal place.
  3. 3rd July 19822 of 10 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
  4. 4th July 1982A box plot has a minimum of 18 and a maximum of 38. Work out the range.
  5. 5th July 1982Work out (49 x 10^12) / (7 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
  6. 6th July 1982Factorise x^2 - 121.
  7. 7th July 1982A block has volume 160 cm^3 and density 7.5 g/cm^3. Work out its mass.
  8. 8th July 1982A right-angled triangle has sides 8 cm, 15 cm and 17 cm. Work out the angle opposite the 8 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
  9. 9th July 198212 students study Spanish and 7 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  10. 10th July 1982A box plot has minimum 1, lower quartile 6, median 15, upper quartile 21 and maximum 28. Work out the interquartile range.
  11. 11th July 1982Write the recurring decimal 0.111... as a fraction in its simplest form.
  12. 12th July 1982A region is defined by y < -2x + 4. Should the boundary line be solid or dashed, and why?
  13. 13th July 1982x : y = 2 : 7. Write y in terms of x.
  14. 14th July 1982The point (-1, 1) is enlarged by scale factor -2 about the centre (-4, -3). Write down the coordinates of the image.
  15. 15th July 19821 of 5 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
  16. 16th July 1982A capture-recapture estimate is made of the fish population of a pond. State one assumption the method relies on.
  17. 17th July 1982Work out 49^(3/2).
  18. 18th July 1982Factorise x^2 - 14x + 49.
  19. 19th July 1982A price rises by 10% and then falls by 10%. Work out the overall percentage change, to 2 decimal places.
  20. 20th July 1982Two similar solids have lengths in the ratio 1 : 2. The larger has a volume of 216 cm^3. Work out the volume of the smaller.
  21. 21st July 198224 students study Spanish and 9 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  22. 22nd July 1982A histogram class is 2 units wide and contains 3 values. Work out the frequency density.
  23. 23rd July 1982Write sqrt(72) in the form a sqrt(b), where b is as small as possible.
  24. 24th July 1982Work out the equation of the line parallel to y = x + 1 that passes through (3, -7).
  25. 25th July 1982y is inversely proportional to x. When x = 5, y = 20. Work out y when x = 10.
  26. 26th July 1982A right-angled triangle has a hypotenuse of 20 cm and one shorter side of 12 cm. Work out the other shorter side.
  27. 27th July 19821 of 10 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
  28. 28th July 1982Four classes in order have frequencies 8, 3, 4, 3. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
  29. 29th July 1982A meal deal has 7 mains, 9 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  30. 30th July 1982A line has equation y = -4x + 3. Work out the gradient of any line perpendicular to it.
  31. 31st July 1982y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 3, y = 81. Work out y when x = 9.

The same month at another level