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March 1961 5-a-day

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March 1961

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

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

  1. 1st March 1961Which is better value: 3 pens for 2 pounds 40, or 5 pens for 3 pounds 75?
  2. 2nd March 1961What is 3/5 of 45?
  3. 3rd March 1961A factory packs eggs into boxes of 6. It has 925 eggs. How many complete boxes can it fill, and how many eggs are left over?
  4. 4th March 1961A jar has 72 sweets. 1/4 are red. Of the remaining sweets, 1/2 are green. How many sweets are green?
  5. 5th March 1961Simplify the ratio 24 : 36 to its simplest form.
  6. 6th March 1961A washing machine costs 320 pounds and is reduced by 12.5% in a sale. What is the sale price?
  7. 7th March 1961Convert 4 kg 250 g to kilograms as a decimal.
  8. 8th March 1961Three friends share a bill of £42 equally. How much does each pay?
  9. 9th March 1961Find the term-to-term rule for the sequence 100, 90, 80, 70, ...
  10. 10th March 1961A train leaves at 07:42 and arrives at 09:05. How long does the journey take?
  11. 11th March 1961A fair dice is rolled. What is the probability of rolling an even number?
  12. 12th March 1961Explain why dividing a number by 100 gives a smaller result than dividing the same number by 10.
  13. 13th March 1961A square sheet of paper is folded in half diagonally, corner to corner, so the bottom-left corner lands exactly on the top-right corner. A hole is punched 2cm from the crease, well inside the folded triangle. How many holes appear once unfolded, and are they the same distance from the crease as the original hole?
  14. 14th March 1961Figure 1: square with a smaller white square centred inside it at exactly half its width. Figure 2: pentagon with a smaller white pentagon centred inside it at exactly half its width. Figure 3: hexagon with a smaller white hexagon centred inside it at exactly half its width. Which follows the same rule: an octagon with a smaller white octagon inside it at half its width, or an octagon with a smaller white octagon inside it at a third of its width?
  15. 15th March 1961A car park has 3 rows of 24 spaces. If 56 spaces are full, how many are empty?
  16. 16th March 19613 identical notebooks cost 5.40 pounds. How much would 7 notebooks cost?
  17. 17th March 1961Round 6,384 to the nearest hundred.
  18. 18th March 1961Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to TIMID: shy, bold, quiet, gentle.
  19. 19th March 1961'The word can mean either a young sheep or a gentle, easily led person.' Which word is being described?
  20. 20th March 1961Convert 450 seconds into minutes and seconds.
  21. 21st March 1961What is 15% of 220?
  22. 22nd March 1961The word can mean the main stem of a tree, or a large box used for storage or travel. Which word is being described?
  23. 23rd March 1961A shape is reflected in a vertical mirror line. If the original shape has a black triangle in its top-left corner, where will the triangle appear in the reflected shape?
  24. 24th March 1961Continue the letter series: Z, X, V, T, ...
  25. 25th March 1961Which meaning of 'plant' fits this sentence: 'Detectives suspected the evidence had been planted to mislead them.' (a) a living organism that grows in soil (b) a factory (c) to place something secretly to deceive (d) to put a seed in the ground?
  26. 26th March 1961Continue the number series: 81, 27, 9, 3, ...
  27. 27th March 1961Work out 13 x 12.
  28. 28th March 1961A car park charges £1.50 for the first hour and 80p for every hour after that. How much does 3 hours cost?
  29. 29th March 1961Find the letter that completes the word before the bracket and begins the word after the bracket: FLA ( ? ) IRE
  30. 30th March 1961TYRE is to RUBBER as WINDOW is to ?
  31. 31st March 1961(CROWN, MONARCHY) (SCALES, JUSTICE) (DOVE, ?)