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October 1991 5-a-day

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October 1991

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

Every sheet in October 1991

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 1991How many lines are quoted in 'Every night I feed the light its steady diet of flame, / so that far-off ships need never fear the rocks below'?
  2. 2nd October 1991Correct the punctuation error, given that three boys own the bikes: 'The three boys bikes were left outside.'
  3. 3rd October 1991Why is it important to check which extract (A or B) a question refers to on a mixed-genre paper?
  4. 4th October 1991True or False: a poem set in autumn or at harvest time often uses ideas of change or endings as well as describing the season itself.
  5. 5th October 1991Choose the correct pronoun: 'Jack and (I / me) are going to the cinema.'
  6. 6th October 1991Give the correct sign-off for a formal letter that began "Dear Mrs Owusu,".
  7. 7th October 1991In Extract B, give one fact stated about how long swifts can stay airborne.
  8. 8th October 1991In the sentence 'The crowd fell (1)_______ as the winner's name was announced', explain why 'silent' fits better than 'quiet', even though both are grammatically correct.
  9. 9th October 1991True or False: increasing an amount by 50% and then decreasing the result by 50% returns you to the original amount.
  10. 10th October 1991True or False: to find 2/5 of a ratio share, you first work out the share as a number, then find the fraction of that number.
  11. 11th October 1991A rectangular lawn measures 12 m by 7 m. Fencing costs 3.50 pounds per metre. Calculate the total cost of fencing the whole perimeter.
  12. 12th October 1991A father is 30 years older than his son. If the son is 7, how old will the father be in 5 years' time?
  13. 13th October 1991Point C is at (5, -1). Reflect C in the y-axis. Write down the new coordinates.
  14. 14th October 1991A train stops at three stations: Ashby (departs 10:05), Bilton (arrives 10:28, departs 10:33), Colworth (arrives 10:56). How long does the whole journey from Ashby to Colworth take, including the stop at Bilton?
  15. 15th October 1991A data set of 9 values is arranged in order. Which position is the median value in?
  16. 16th October 1991Find the term-to-term rule for the sequence 40, 34, 28, 22, ...
  17. 17th October 1991A pupil spends 90 seconds on a question, but had planned 54 seconds per question. Roughly how many seconds behind schedule are they after this one question?
  18. 18th October 1991Write the next two terms of the sequence 3, 8, 13, 18, ...
  19. 19th October 1991A data table lists three towns' populations: Ashby 12,400, Byton 9,800, Carwell 15,650. What is the combined population of Byton and Carwell?
  20. 20th October 1991Find the next two terms of the sequence 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
  21. 21st October 1991A shop sells notebooks at 1.60 pounds each. A pupil buys 3 notebooks and pays with a 10-pound note. How much change do they get?
  22. 22nd October 1991Calculate: 27 x 16.
  23. 23rd October 1991What is 6 + 7?
  24. 24th October 1991Tickets cost 4 pounds each. How much do 7 tickets cost?
  25. 25th October 1991A rectangular field is 120 m by 80 m. What is its perimeter in metres?
  26. 26th October 1991Work out 5/6 - 1/3, giving your answer in its simplest form.
  27. 27th October 1991Take 24 away from 71.
  28. 28th October 1991A function machine takes an input, multiplies it by 3, then subtracts 5, to give an output of 22. What was the input?
  29. 29th October 1991A library has 320 books. 3/8 of them are fiction. How many books are non-fiction?
  30. 30th October 1991Work out 7/10 - 1/5, giving your answer in its simplest form.
  31. 31st October 1991Complete the missing number: 9 : 4 = ___ : 20.