Algebra
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What is a variable?
✅ Answer: A letter or symbol that represents an unknown number.
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What do we call an angle that measures less than 90°?
✅ Answer: An acute angle.
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What are the factors of 24?
✅ Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24.
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Round 4.36 to one decimal place.
✅ Answer: 4.4.
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What are the main primary schools that feed into Calderhead High School?
✅ Answer: Allanton, Alexander Peden, Dykehead, Kirk O’ Shotts, and Stane Primary.
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Evaluate 3x+4 when x=2
✅ Answer: 3(2)+4=10
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Two angles add up to 90°. What kind of angles are they?
✅ Answer: Complementary angles.
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List the first five multiples of 6.
✅ Answer: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30.
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Round 7.845 to two decimal places.
✅ Answer: 7.85.
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Who was the Head Teacher before Mrs DiMambro?
✅ Answer: Mr Robertson.
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Evaluate 2x=10
✅ Answer: x=5
What is the sum of the interior angles in a triangle?
✅ Answer: 180°.
11 is a prime number. Do you agree or disagree? Justify your reasoning.
✅ Answer: Agree — 11 has only two factors: 1 and 11.
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Multiply: 0.6 × 4.
✅ Answer: 2.4.
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‘Calderhead High School’ is written on the front of the school.
What colour is it written in?
✅ Answer: Yellow.
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Simplify: 4a+3b−2a+b
✅ Answer: 2a+4b
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If two vertical (opposite) angles are formed, one is 35°. What is the other?
✅ Answer: 35° — vertical angles are equal.
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Find the HCF (Highest Common Factor) of 12 and 18.
✅ Answer: 6.
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Divide: 6.4 ÷ 2.
✅ Answer: 3.2.
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What is the famous quote Shotts is known for?
✅ Answer: “Shotts lights the world.”
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Solve for x:
3x−5=16
✅ Answer: x=7
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Angles around a point add up to how many degrees?
✅ Answer: 360°.
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Find the LCM (Lowest Common Multiple) of 4 and 5.
✅ Answer: 20.
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A number rounds to 5.7 when rounded to one decimal place.
List two possible numbers it could have been.
✅ Answer: Any number from 5.65 up to (but not including) 5.75.
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What’s the best takeaway in Shotts?
All!