Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
May 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1991A tank holds 200 litres. 30% is drained, then half of what remains is drained again. How much water is left?
- 2nd May 1991Find the next two terms in this sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 3rd May 1991A cinema ticket costs 6 pounds 50. A group of 4 friends buys tickets. What is the total cost?
- 4th May 1991Convert 0.28 to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 5th May 1991Convert 0.125 to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 6th May 1991Share 36 in the ratio 1:3.
- 7th May 1991Out of 25 questions in a test, Sam gets 21 correct. What percentage did Sam get correct?
- 8th May 1991Jamie pays for a 7 pound 60 item with a 10 pound note. How much change does he receive?
- 9th May 1991A shape has 3 sides of equal length and all angles equal. What is this shape called, and what is the size of each interior angle?
- 10th May 1991Paint is mixed in the ratio blue:white = 2:7. If 18 litres of blue paint are used, how many litres of white paint are needed?
- 11th May 1991Find 2/7 of 84.
- 12th May 199172 stickers are shared between Jack and Mia in the ratio 5 : 7. How many stickers does Mia receive?
- 13th May 1991A youth orchestra has string and wind players in the ratio 5:3. There are 24 wind players. How many string players are there?
- 14th May 1991Convert 2500 millilitres to litres.
- 15th May 1991A train journey takes 2 hours 45 minutes. It departs at 09:20. What time does it arrive?
- 16th May 1991Solve: 5x = 35.
- 17th May 1991A film starts at 19:50 and lasts 1 hour 45 minutes. At what time does it end?
- 18th May 1991Two fair coins are flipped. What is the probability that both land on tails?
- 19th May 1991Find the value of 0.3 x 10 x 10.
- 20th May 1991A square sheet is folded in half vertically, then folded in half again horizontally, so the final folded shape is a quarter of the original size. A single hole is punched through all the layers, well away from both crease lines. How many holes will there be once fully unfolded, and why?
- 21st May 1991Figure 1: square (4 sides) with 2 dots. Figure 2: hexagon (6 sides) with 3 dots. Figure 3: octagon (8 sides) with 4 dots. Which follows the same rule: a decagon (10 sides) with 5 dots, or a decagon (10 sides) with 6 dots?
- 22nd May 1991Work out 9 squared minus 40.
- 23rd May 1991Which ONE word means both 'a device worn on the wrist to tell the time' and 'to look at something carefully'?
- 24th May 1991Write these numbers in order, smallest first: 3,206, 3,260, 3,026 and 3,602.
- 25th May 1991Move one letter from the first word to the second word to make two new words: CARE and OT.
- 26th May 1991'The negotiator's tone remained level throughout, giving nothing away.' What does 'level' suggest about the negotiator's tone in this sentence?
- 27th May 1991Convert 3.2 kilograms into grams.
- 28th May 1991A stadium holds 6,847 people. A reporter writes that about 7,000 people attended. To what has the figure been rounded, and what is the difference between the rounded figure and the true one?
- 29th May 1991Which word is closest in meaning to 'reluctant': (a) eager (b) unwilling (c) confident (d) careless?
- 30th May 1991Which shape is the odd one out: a circle with 3 dots, a circle with 3 dots, a circle with 3 dots, a circle with 4 dots?
- 31st May 1991A train ticket costs £24. A group ticket for 5 people costs £95. How much cheaper per person is the group ticket compared with buying single tickets?