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January 1972 5-a-day

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January 1972

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

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.

  1. 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?
  2. 2nd January 1972Calculate: 546 divided by 6.
  3. 3rd January 1972Look at this group of numbers: 16, 25, 36, 44, 49. Which number does not belong?
  4. 4th January 1972In the number 58,204, what is the value of the digit 8?
  5. 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?
  6. 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?
  7. 7th January 1972A parking meter charges 60p for every 15 minutes. How much does 1 hour of parking cost?
  8. 8th January 1972A bottle holds 3/8 of a litre of oil. Write this amount as a decimal.
  9. 9th January 1972Work out 0.36 divided by 6.
  10. 10th January 1972What is 8 x 9?
  11. 11th January 1972A quantity is decreased by 20%, then decreased again by 25%. Find the single decimal multiplier equivalent to both changes combined.
  12. 12th January 1972A pack of 6 apples costs 1 pound 80. What is the cost per apple?
  13. 13th January 1972A number is multiplied by 4, then 7 is subtracted, giving 21. What was the original number?
  14. 14th January 1972A book priced at 12 pounds is increased by 15%. What is the new price?
  15. 15th January 1972Convert 3/8 to a decimal.
  16. 16th January 19726 identical notebooks cost 6.90 pounds. Calculate the cost of 10 of these notebooks.
  17. 17th January 1972A triangle has angles of 55 degrees and 68 degrees. What is the size of the third angle?
  18. 18th January 1972A journey starts at 10:45 and takes 1 hour 50 minutes. What time does it finish?
  19. 19th January 1972A train journey takes 2 hours 45 minutes. It departs at 09:20. What time does it arrive?
  20. 20th January 1972Solve: 5x = 35.
  21. 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?
  22. 22nd January 1972Two fair coins are flipped. What is the probability that both land on tails?
  23. 23rd January 1972Work out 91 divided by 1000.
  24. 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?
  25. 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?
  26. 26th January 1972Continue the number sequence: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ...
  27. 27th January 1972A train leaves at 11:20 and takes 2 hours 35 minutes to arrive. What time does it arrive?
  28. 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?
  29. 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.'
  30. 30th January 1972'The climb proved more arduous than the guidebook had suggested.' What does 'arduous' suggest about the climb?
  31. 31st January 1972A bus leaves at 14:20 and the journey takes 55 minutes. What time does it arrive?