Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
December 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1959Using the formula A = s x s, find A when s = 7.
- 2nd December 1959A pupil scores 65, 72 and 80 on three tests. What score is needed on a fourth test for the mean of all four to be 75?
- 3rd December 1959A graph shows a car uses a 50-litre tank of fuel to travel 400km at a steady rate. How far can it travel on 20 litres?
- 4th December 1959A model car is built at a scale of 1:20. If the real car is 4m long, how long is the model, in cm?
- 5th December 1959Tom is older than Sam. Sam is older than Priya. Is Tom older than Priya?
- 6th December 1959Calculate: 12.6 + 5.75.
- 7th December 1959In a magic square, every row, column and diagonal adds up to 15. The grid is: Row 1: 8, a, 6. Row 2: 3, 5, 7. Row 3: 4, 9, b. Find a and b.
- 8th December 1959Order these numbers from smallest to largest: -6, 3, -2, -9.
- 9th December 1959A baker makes 96 rolls. She sells half in the morning, then a quarter of what remains in the afternoon. How many rolls are left at the end of the day?
- 10th December 1959The nth term of a sequence is 3n + 2. Find the 5th term.
- 11th December 1959Convert 2.5 kilograms to grams.
- 12th December 1959Convert 9/20 to a percentage.
- 13th December 1959Order these decimals from smallest to largest: 0.6, 0.56, 0.605, 0.65.
- 14th December 1959Find 3/4 of 48.
- 15th December 1959Decrease 240 by 15%.
- 16th December 1959A weekly budget is 25 pounds. After buying items costing 8 pounds 40 and 6 pounds 15, how much of the budget remains?
- 17th December 1959A rectangle has a length of 9cm and a width of 4cm. Find its area.
- 18th December 1959A square has an area of 81 cm squared. What is the length of one side?
- 19th December 1959Convert 0.6 to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 20th December 1959A scale drawing has a scale of 1 : 200. A wall on the drawing is 8 cm long. Work out the real length of the wall in metres.
- 21st December 1959A warehouse has 27 boxes, each containing 48 tins. How many tins in total?
- 22nd December 1959A car travels 180 km in 3 hours. What is its average speed in km/h?
- 23rd December 1959A shop sells apples at 35p each. How much do 6 apples cost, in pounds?
- 24th December 1959If a=4 and b=3, find the value of 2a+3b.
- 25th December 1959Write 'twenty five past six in the evening' using the 24-hour clock.
- 26th December 1959Using the bag above, what is the probability of NOT picking a red counter?
- 27th December 1959In the number 5.372, what is the value of the digit 7?
- 28th December 1959A square sheet is folded in half vertically, then in half vertically again the same way, so the sheet is now a quarter of its original width but full height (4 layers thick). A hole is punched near the middle of the height, well away from any crease. How many holes will appear when the paper is fully unfolded?
- 29th December 1959Figure 1: an arrow pointing at 12 o'clock with a flag folded exactly halfway along its shaft. Figure 2: an arrow pointing at 3 o'clock with a flag folded exactly halfway along its shaft. Figure 3: an arrow pointing at 6 o'clock with a flag folded exactly halfway along its shaft. Which follows the same rule: an arrow pointing at 9 o'clock with its flag folded exactly halfway, or an arrow pointing at 9 o'clock with its flag folded a quarter of the way along?
- 30th December 1959Find the missing letter: STA ( ? ) OVE, where the letter completes the first word and starts the second.
- 31st December 1959Find the one word that completes both words in brackets to make two new compound words: WIND ( ? ) PIPE