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1. Write down the next number in each sequence.
(a) 5, 19, 33, 47,
(b) 1, 4, 9, 16,
(c) 2, 6, 18, 54,
(d) 88, 44, 22, 11,
(e) 300, 298, 294, 286, 270,
4. A ‘preble’ is a set of three numbers in which the last number is the product of the first two numbers, for example (3, 2, 6).
Work out the missing number in each of these prebles.
(a) (6, 1¹/3 , a) a =
(b) (12, b, 15) b =
(c) (c, 11, 1045) c =
(d) (0.5, d, 28) d =
(e) (0.4, e, 0.24) e =
6. Aidan can buy wine for his shop in two ways.
Firstly, he can buy cases which each contain 12 bottles of wine. Each case costs £40.
Secondly, he can buy single bottles of wine at a cost of £4.50 each. For every 6 bottles he buys, he gets 2 extra bottles free.
Aidan decides he needs 96 bottles of wine. Work out the cost by each of the two methods and then say which method is cheaper, and by how much.
11. In a list of numbers:
the mode is the number which occurs the most often;
the median is the number which is in the middle of the list when the numbers have been put in order;
the mean is the sum of all the numbers divided by how many numbers there are in the list.
For example, for the list 1, 4, 7, 1, 2,
mode = 1, median = 2, mean = 15/5 = 3
(a) Find the mode, the median, and the mean for the list 8, 5, 2, 16, 6, 5, 7.
mode =
median =
mean =
(b) Write down a list of three whole numbers for which the mode is 4 and the mean is 6.
(c) Write down a list of five whole numbers for which the mode is 9, the median is 4, and the mean is 5.
(d) Write down three different lists, each containing five whole numbers, so that for each list the mode is 1 and the mean is 2.