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May 1961 5-a-day

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May 1961

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

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  1. 1st May 1961Choose the correct preposition: 'The treasure was hidden ___ the three pirates.' A) between B) among
  2. 2nd May 1961Why is "less" generally considered incorrect in the sentence "There were less cars on the road today"?
  3. 3rd May 1961Why might a writer describe a setting as behaving illogically, such as corridors that multiply, rather than simply describing it as 'a big house'?
  4. 4th May 1961'Elliot dragged the trunk out from behind the water tank, coughing as decades of dust rose around him.' Which word tells you that a very long time had passed since the trunk was last moved?
  5. 5th May 1961Add a prefix to 'patient' to make its antonym.
  6. 6th May 1961Find 40% of 150 using 10% as a building block.
  7. 7th May 1961Work out -6 + 9.
  8. 8th May 1961A number is divisible by 8. Is it always divisible by 4? Explain.
  9. 9th May 1961A cross-shaped tile is made from a 12 cm by 4 cm rectangle and a 4 cm by 12 cm rectangle overlapping at their centres, where the overlapping square is 4 cm by 4 cm. Find the total area of the cross.
  10. 10th May 1961A triangle has a base of 10 cm and a height of 6 cm. Find its area.
  11. 11th May 1961A runner covers 100 m in 20 seconds. Work out his speed in metres per second.
  12. 12th May 1961A two-way table for 60 pupils shows 35 study French and 32 study Spanish, with 10 studying both. How many pupils study neither language?
  13. 13th May 1961Solve: 2x - 3 = 11.
  14. 14th May 1961A jacket costs 60 pounds and is reduced by 15%. What is the sale price?
  15. 15th May 1961Solve x - 6 = 15.
  16. 16th May 1961A bar chart shows rainfall of 45mm in June and 63mm in July. Find the total rainfall over the two months.
  17. 17th May 1961Solve 2x + 5 = 3x - 4.
  18. 18th May 1961A shop sells pens in packs of 8 for 4.80 pounds. A pupil buys 3 packs and pays with a 20-pound note. How much change do they get?
  19. 19th May 1961Find the area of a triangle with base 8cm and height 5cm.
  20. 20th May 1961Find 20% of 90.
  21. 21st May 1961A minibus seats 16 passengers. 90 people need transport. How many minibuses are needed for everyone to have a seat?
  22. 22nd May 1961Find the range of this data set: 12, 18, 7, 22, 15.
  23. 23rd May 1961Convert 0.35 to a fraction in its simplest form.
  24. 24th May 1961I am a three-digit number. My hundreds digit is 5. My units digit is 2 more than my hundreds digit. My tens digit is 1. What number am I?
  25. 25th May 1961Work out 3/4 x 2/9, giving your answer in its simplest form.
  26. 26th May 1961A baker makes 240 loaves. She sells 5/8 of them in the morning. Of the loaves left, 30% are sold in the afternoon, and the rest are given to a food bank. How many loaves go to the food bank?
  27. 27th May 1961Round 15.968 to 2 decimal places.
  28. 28th May 1961A bar chart shows sales of 25, 40, 15 and 20 items over four days. What was the total sold across all four days?
  29. 29th May 1961Find the position-to-term rule for the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
  30. 30th May 1961A map has a scale of 1 : 50,000. Two villages are 4 cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them in kilometres.
  31. 31st May 1961Write 7/10 as a decimal and as a percentage.