Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
July 1957 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1957
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1957Put these events in order from least likely to most likely: (a) rolling an even number on a fair dice, (b) picking the ace of spades from a full deck of 52 cards, (c) the sun rising tomorrow.
- 2nd July 1957Using the formula C = 4 + 2m from the previous question, work out the cost of a 6-mile taxi journey.
- 3rd July 1957The mean of four numbers is 9. Three of the numbers are 6, 8 and 11. Find the fourth number.
- 4th July 1957A distance-time graph shows a cyclist travels 24km in 2 hours at a steady speed. How far do they travel in 5 hours at the same speed?
- 5th July 1957A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of rice. How much rice is needed for 9 people?
- 6th July 1957In a class of 28 pupils, 16 play netball, 12 play hockey, and 5 play both sports. How many pupils play neither sport?
- 7th July 1957Calculate: 546 divided by 6.
- 8th July 1957Look at this group of numbers: 16, 25, 36, 44, 49. Which number does not belong?
- 9th July 1957In the number 58,204, what is the value of the digit 8?
- 10th July 1957A class of 32 pupils is split into 4 equal teams. Each team then loses 2 pupils to another activity. How many pupils remain in each team?
- 11th July 1957A function machine takes an input, multiplies it by 4, then adds 3, to give an output of 27. What was the input?
- 12th July 1957A parking meter charges 60p for every 15 minutes. How much does 1 hour of parking cost?
- 13th July 1957A bottle holds 3/8 of a litre of oil. Write this amount as a decimal.
- 14th July 1957Work out 0.36 divided by 6.
- 15th July 1957What is 8 x 9?
- 16th July 1957A quantity is decreased by 20%, then decreased again by 25%. Find the single decimal multiplier equivalent to both changes combined.
- 17th July 1957A pack of 6 apples costs 1 pound 80. What is the cost per apple?
- 18th July 1957A number is multiplied by 4, then 7 is subtracted, giving 21. What was the original number?
- 19th July 1957Paint is mixed in the ratio blue:white = 2:7. If 18 litres of blue paint are used, how many litres of white paint are needed?
- 20th July 1957Convert 3/8 to a decimal.
- 21st July 19576 identical notebooks cost 6.90 pounds. Calculate the cost of 10 of these notebooks.
- 22nd July 1957A youth orchestra has string and wind players in the ratio 5:3. There are 24 wind players. How many string players are there?
- 23rd July 1957A journey starts at 10:45 and takes 1 hour 50 minutes. What time does it finish?
- 24th July 1957A car park has 4 rows with 15 spaces each. If 38 spaces are full, how many are empty?
- 25th July 1957Find the next term: 7, 12, 17, 22, ...
- 26th July 1957Buses leave a stop every 25 minutes starting at 06:00. Amir arrives at the stop at 07:48, just missing a bus. How many minutes must he wait for the next bus?
- 27th July 1957Write the probability 0.2 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 28th July 1957Find the value of 0.3 x 10 x 10.
- 29th July 1957A square sheet of paper is folded in half vertically, left onto right. A hole is punched exactly on the crease line, 2cm from the bottom edge. How many separate holes appear once the paper is unfolded, and why?
- 30th July 1957Figure 1: pentagon (5 sides) with 1 dot, unshaded. Figure 2: heptagon (7 sides) with 2 dots, unshaded. Figure 3: nonagon (9 sides) with 3 dots, unshaded. Which follows the same rule: an undecagon (11 sides) with 4 dots, unshaded, or a decagon (10 sides) with 4 dots, unshaded?
- 31st July 1957Work out 9 squared minus 40.