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October 1986 5-a-day

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October 1986

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

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Every sheet in October 1986

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st October 1986Round 74,528 to the nearest thousand.
  2. 2nd October 1986Work out 5/9 + 2/9, giving your answer in its simplest form.
  3. 3rd October 1986A 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?
  4. 4th October 1986Three friends share a restaurant bill of 47.85 pounds equally. How much does each person pay?
  5. 5th October 1986Find the range of this data set: 9, 15, 4, 22, 11.
  6. 6th October 1986A function machine takes a number, multiplies it by 3, then adds 5. What is the output when the input is 8?
  7. 7th October 198636 sweets are shared between Alex and Beth in the ratio 4 : 5. How many sweets does Beth receive?
  8. 8th October 1986Write 7/10 as a decimal and as a percentage.
  9. 9th October 1986Work out 347 + 268 without a calculator.
  10. 10th October 1986Work out 12 x 0.5.
  11. 11th October 1986Write -8 and 3 in order from smallest to largest.
  12. 12th October 1986A triangle has a base of 12cm and a height of 7cm. Find its area.
  13. 13th October 1986A class has 12 boys and 18 girls. Write the ratio of boys to girls in its simplest form.
  14. 14th October 1986Work out the total cost of 3 pens at 0.65 pounds each and 2 pencils at 0.30 pounds each.
  15. 15th October 1986Divide 91 by 7.
  16. 16th October 1986Order these from smallest to largest: 1/4, 0.3, 20%.
  17. 17th October 1986The 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)?
  18. 18th October 1986Figure 1: hexagon (6 sides), unshaded. Figure 2: heptagon (7 sides), unshaded. Figure 3: square (4 sides), unshaded. What should the answer figure look like?
  19. 19th October 1986A 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.
  20. 20th October 1986A recipe uses flour and sugar in the ratio 5:2. If 250g of sugar is used, how much flour is needed?
  21. 21st October 1986Find the median of 12, 3, 8, 15 and 7.
  22. 22nd October 1986AUTHOR is to BOOK as COMPOSER is to ? Choose from: (a) music (b) piano (c) song (d) orchestra.
  23. 23rd October 1986'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?
  24. 24th October 1986Find the missing number: 4, 9, 16, 25, ?, 49.
  25. 25th October 1986Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to ABUNDANT: plentiful, scarce, common, large.
  26. 26th October 1986A recipe uses 350ml of milk. How many full 250ml glasses can be poured from 2 litres of milk after the recipe has used its share?
  27. 27th October 1986A 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?
  28. 28th October 1986If each letter of a word is coded by moving it forward one place in the alphabet (so CAT would be coded as DBU), decode the word 'EBSL' back to the original word it stands for.
  29. 29th October 1986If 3n + 5 = 26, what is n?
  30. 30th October 1986A jacket costs 50 pounds and is increased by 20% for a new season. What is the new price?
  31. 31st October 1986A shape is reflected in a horizontal mirror line. If a black dot sits in the bottom-right corner of the original shape, where will it be in the reflection?