Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
August 1961 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1961
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1961Complete the gap: 'The path grew steadily (1)_______ as they climbed higher up the hillside.'
- 2nd August 1961A town's population of 8000 increases by 5%. Work out the new population.
- 3rd August 1961A bag contains 60 marbles. 1/4 of them are red, and the rest are shared between blue and green marbles in the ratio 2 : 3. How many green marbles are there?
- 4th August 1961A cube has edges of length 5 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 5th August 1961A mother is 24 years older than her daughter. The daughter is currently 11. How old will the mother be when the daughter is 20?
- 6th August 1961Point F is at (2, 2). Reflect F in the line x = 6. Write down the new coordinates.
- 7th August 1961Two trains connect at a station: the first arrives at 14:35, and the connecting train departs at 14:50. How long is the wait?
- 8th August 1961Team A's scores have a range of 12. Team B's scores have a range of 5. Which team's scores are more consistent?
- 9th August 1961Find the next two terms of the sequence 6, 11, 16, 21, ...
- 10th August 1961In a multiple-choice question with 5 options, you can immediately rule out 2 as clearly too large. If you then had to guess, has your chance of guessing correctly gone up or down, and to what fraction?
- 11th August 1961Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 12th August 1961A survey of 60 pupils found 24 chose football and 18 chose swimming as their favourite sport, and the rest chose athletics. How many chose athletics?
- 13th August 1961Solve: 3y = 27.
- 14th August 1961A ribbon 3.6m long is cut into pieces 0.4m long. How many pieces can be cut?
- 15th August 1961Find 30% of 250.
- 16th August 1961What number bond to 100 pairs with 65?
- 17th August 1961A jug contains 2 litres of water. 650 ml is poured out. How much water is left, in ml?
- 18th August 1961Convert 2.5 metres into centimetres.
- 19th August 1961Write 23/6 as a mixed number.
- 20th August 1961Multiply 9 by 7.
- 21st August 1961Find the next two terms in this sequence: 5, 9, 13, 17, ...
- 22nd August 1961A tank holds 60 litres of water. 15 litres are used, then another 12 litres are used. How many litres remain?
- 23rd August 1961Find 5/8 of 96.
- 24th August 1961A drink is made from concentrate and water in the ratio 1 : 4. How many millilitres of water are needed for 30 ml of concentrate?
- 25th August 1961A cuboid has a volume of 360 cm^3, a width of 6 cm and a height of 5 cm. Find its length.
- 26th August 1961Express 18 out of 40 as a percentage.
- 27th August 19618 squared = ?
- 28th August 1961The nth term of a sequence is 2n + 6. Find the 5th term.
- 29th August 1961Three consecutive numbers add up to 63. What is the largest of the three numbers?
- 30th August 1961What is two-thirds of 27?
- 31st August 1961After a 15% discount, a bike costs 102 pounds. Work out the original price.