Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
July 1979 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1979Team A scored 87 points. Team B scored 59 points. By how many points did Team A win?
- 2nd July 1979The mean of four numbers is 10. Three of the numbers are 8, 11 and 9. What is the fourth number?
- 3rd July 1979A jug holds 2/5 of a litre of juice. Write this amount as a decimal.
- 4th July 1979Round 74,528 to the nearest thousand.
- 5th July 1979Work out 5/9 + 2/9, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 6th July 1979A charity raises 720 pounds. It gives 1/3 to one cause, then splits the remainder equally between 6 other causes, before adding a further 60 pounds from a separate donation to just one of those 6 causes. How much does that one cause receive in total?
- 7th July 1979Three friends share a restaurant bill of 47.85 pounds equally. How much does each person pay?
- 8th July 1979Find the range of this data set: 9, 15, 4, 22, 11.
- 9th July 1979A function machine takes a number, multiplies it by 3, then adds 5. What is the output when the input is 8?
- 10th July 197936 sweets are shared between Alex and Beth in the ratio 4 : 5. How many sweets does Beth receive?
- 11th July 1979Convert 0.05 to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 12th July 1979Work out 347 + 268 without a calculator.
- 13th July 1979Work out 34 + 89.
- 14th July 1979Write -8 and 3 in order from smallest to largest.
- 15th July 1979What 3D shape has 1 circular face, 1 vertex, and a curved surface?
- 16th July 1979Find 30% of 150.
- 17th July 1979Work out the total cost of 3 pens at 0.65 pounds each and 2 pencils at 0.30 pounds each.
- 18th July 1979Divide 91 by 7.
- 19th July 1979Write 9/25 as a percentage.
- 20th July 1979The plan of a solid on a 2 by 3 grid (columns A, B; rows 1, 2, 3) shades squares A1, B1, A2 and B3, leaving B2 and A3 blank. Which of these two options cannot be the front elevation: bars of 1, 1 (columns A, B) or bars of 0, 1 (columns A, B)?
- 21st July 1979Figure 1: hexagon (6 sides), unshaded. Figure 2: heptagon (7 sides), unshaded. Figure 3: square (4 sides), unshaded. What should the answer figure look like?
- 22nd July 1979A net has a straight line of four squares showing, in order, a smiley face, a star, a moon and a heart. A diamond is attached above the star and a cross is attached below the star. State the three pairs of opposite faces on the folded cube.
- 23rd July 1979A recipe uses flour and sugar in the ratio 5:2. If 250g of sugar is used, how much flour is needed?
- 24th July 1979A tally chart shows how many pets 20 pupils have: 4 pupils have 0 pets, 9 pupils have 1 pet, 5 pupils have 2 pets, and 2 pupils have 3 pets. How many pupils have at least 2 pets?
- 25th July 1979AUTHOR is to BOOK as COMPOSER is to ? Choose from: (a) music (b) piano (c) song (d) orchestra.
- 26th July 1979'The politician's speech was notably candid about the mistakes made.' Which is closest in meaning to 'candid': (a) vague (b) honest (c) angry (d) lengthy?
- 27th July 1979Find the missing number: 4, 9, 16, 25, ?, 49.
- 28th July 1979What is 3/10 as a percentage?
- 29th July 1979(WARM) (OVE). Exactly one letter can move from the end of the first word to the front of the second word so that both words made are still correctly spelled real words. Which letter moves, and what are the two new words?
- 30th July 1979A shape has a dot in its top-left corner. The shape is reflected in a vertical mirror line (a left-right flip). Where is the dot now?
- 31st July 1979Using the same code (each letter moves 3 places forward), what does 'DOG' become?