Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
January 1972 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1972
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1972In a class of 28 pupils, 16 play netball, 12 play hockey, and 5 play both sports. How many pupils play neither sport?
- 2nd January 1972Calculate: 546 divided by 6.
- 3rd January 1972Look at this group of numbers: 16, 25, 36, 44, 49. Which number does not belong?
- 4th January 1972In the number 58,204, what is the value of the digit 8?
- 5th January 1972A class of 32 pupils is split into 4 equal teams. Each team then loses 2 pupils to another activity. How many pupils remain in each team?
- 6th January 1972A function machine takes an input, multiplies it by 4, then adds 3, to give an output of 27. What was the input?
- 7th January 1972A parking meter charges 60p for every 15 minutes. How much does 1 hour of parking cost?
- 8th January 1972A bottle holds 3/8 of a litre of oil. Write this amount as a decimal.
- 9th January 1972Work out 0.36 divided by 6.
- 10th January 1972What is 8 x 9?
- 11th January 1972A quantity is decreased by 20%, then decreased again by 25%. Find the single decimal multiplier equivalent to both changes combined.
- 12th January 1972A pack of 6 apples costs 1 pound 80. What is the cost per apple?
- 13th January 1972A number is multiplied by 4, then 7 is subtracted, giving 21. What was the original number?
- 14th January 1972A book priced at 12 pounds is increased by 15%. What is the new price?
- 15th January 1972Convert 3/8 to a decimal.
- 16th January 19726 identical notebooks cost 6.90 pounds. Calculate the cost of 10 of these notebooks.
- 17th January 1972A triangle has angles of 55 degrees and 68 degrees. What is the size of the third angle?
- 18th January 1972A journey starts at 10:45 and takes 1 hour 50 minutes. What time does it finish?
- 19th January 1972A train journey takes 2 hours 45 minutes. It departs at 09:20. What time does it arrive?
- 20th January 1972Solve: 5x = 35.
- 21st January 1972Buses leave a stop every 25 minutes starting at 06:00. Amir arrives at the stop at 07:48, just missing a bus. How many minutes must he wait for the next bus?
- 22nd January 1972Two fair coins are flipped. What is the probability that both land on tails?
- 23rd January 1972Work out 91 divided by 1000.
- 24th January 1972A square sheet of paper is folded in half vertically, left onto right. A hole is punched exactly on the crease line, 2cm from the bottom edge. How many separate holes appear once the paper is unfolded, and why?
- 25th January 1972Figure 1: pentagon (5 sides) with 1 dot, unshaded. Figure 2: heptagon (7 sides) with 2 dots, unshaded. Figure 3: nonagon (9 sides) with 3 dots, unshaded. Which follows the same rule: an undecagon (11 sides) with 4 dots, unshaded, or a decagon (10 sides) with 4 dots, unshaded?
- 26th January 1972Continue the number sequence: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ...
- 27th January 1972A train leaves at 11:20 and takes 2 hours 35 minutes to arrive. What time does it arrive?
- 28th January 1972A stadium's official capacity is given as 'about 30,000' after being rounded to the nearest 10,000. What is the smallest whole number the true capacity could be?
- 29th January 1972Find the hidden four-letter word made from the end of one word and the start of the next: 'You are the best army cadet in the troop.'
- 30th January 1972'The climb proved more arduous than the guidebook had suggested.' What does 'arduous' suggest about the climb?
- 31st January 1972A bus leaves at 14:20 and the journey takes 55 minutes. What time does it arrive?