Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
July 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1986In the number 58,204, what is the value of the digit 8?
- 2nd July 1986A 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?
- 3rd July 1986A function machine takes an input, multiplies it by 4, then adds 3, to give an output of 27. What was the input?
- 4th July 1986A parking meter charges 60p for every 15 minutes. How much does 1 hour of parking cost?
- 5th July 1986A bottle holds 3/8 of a litre of oil. Write this amount as a decimal.
- 6th July 1986Work out 0.36 divided by 6.
- 7th July 1986What is 8 x 9?
- 8th July 1986A quantity is decreased by 20%, then decreased again by 25%. Find the single decimal multiplier equivalent to both changes combined.
- 9th July 1986A pack of 6 apples costs 1 pound 80. What is the cost per apple?
- 10th July 1986A number is multiplied by 4, then 7 is subtracted, giving 21. What was the original number?
- 11th July 1986A factory packs eggs into boxes of 6. It has 925 eggs. How many complete boxes can it fill, and how many eggs are left over?
- 12th July 1986Convert 3/8 to a decimal.
- 13th July 19866 identical notebooks cost 6.90 pounds. Calculate the cost of 10 of these notebooks.
- 14th July 1986A washing machine costs 320 pounds and is reduced by 12.5% in a sale. What is the sale price?
- 15th July 1986A journey starts at 10:45 and takes 1 hour 50 minutes. What time does it finish?
- 16th July 1986A car park has 4 rows with 15 spaces each. If 38 spaces are full, how many are empty?
- 17th July 1986Find the next term: 7, 12, 17, 22, ...
- 18th July 1986Buses 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?
- 19th July 1986Write the probability 0.2 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 20th July 1986Explain why dividing a number by 100 gives a smaller result than dividing the same number by 10.
- 21st July 1986A 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?
- 22nd July 1986Figure 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?
- 23rd July 1986A car park has 3 rows of 24 spaces. If 56 spaces are full, how many are empty?
- 24th July 19863 identical notebooks cost 5.40 pounds. How much would 7 notebooks cost?
- 25th July 1986Round 6,384 to the nearest hundred.
- 26th July 1986Find 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.'
- 27th July 1986'The word can mean either a young sheep or a gentle, easily led person.' Which word is being described?
- 28th July 1986A bus leaves at 14:20 and the journey takes 55 minutes. What time does it arrive?
- 29th July 1986A rectangle has a length of 9cm and a width of 4cm. What is its perimeter?
- 30th July 1986'The manager's tone was measured, giving nothing away about her real opinion.' What does 'measured' suggest about the manager's tone?
- 31st July 1986A cube net has six squares arranged in a cross shape, each with a different symbol. When folded into a cube, how many squares end up directly opposite the square marked with a star?