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August 1961 5-a-day

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August 1961

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

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.

  1. 1st August 1961Complete the gap: 'The path grew steadily (1)_______ as they climbed higher up the hillside.'
  2. 2nd August 1961A town's population of 8000 increases by 5%. Work out the new population.
  3. 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?
  4. 4th August 1961A cube has edges of length 5 cm. Calculate its volume.
  5. 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?
  6. 6th August 1961Point F is at (2, 2). Reflect F in the line x = 6. Write down the new coordinates.
  7. 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?
  8. 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?
  9. 9th August 1961Find the next two terms of the sequence 6, 11, 16, 21, ...
  10. 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?
  11. 11th August 1961Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
  12. 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?
  13. 13th August 1961Solve: 3y = 27.
  14. 14th August 1961A ribbon 3.6m long is cut into pieces 0.4m long. How many pieces can be cut?
  15. 15th August 1961Find 30% of 250.
  16. 16th August 1961What number bond to 100 pairs with 65?
  17. 17th August 1961A jug contains 2 litres of water. 650 ml is poured out. How much water is left, in ml?
  18. 18th August 1961Convert 2.5 metres into centimetres.
  19. 19th August 1961Write 23/6 as a mixed number.
  20. 20th August 1961Multiply 9 by 7.
  21. 21st August 1961Find the next two terms in this sequence: 5, 9, 13, 17, ...
  22. 22nd August 1961A tank holds 60 litres of water. 15 litres are used, then another 12 litres are used. How many litres remain?
  23. 23rd August 1961Find 5/8 of 96.
  24. 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?
  25. 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.
  26. 26th August 1961Express 18 out of 40 as a percentage.
  27. 27th August 19618 squared = ?
  28. 28th August 1961The nth term of a sequence is 2n + 6. Find the 5th term.
  29. 29th August 1961Three consecutive numbers add up to 63. What is the largest of the three numbers?
  30. 30th August 1961What is two-thirds of 27?
  31. 31st August 1961After a 15% discount, a bike costs 102 pounds. Work out the original price.