Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1954 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1954
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1954Find 3/8 of 64.
- 2nd August 1954Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 3rd August 1954A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 4th August 1954In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
- 5th August 1954A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 6th August 1954Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 7th August 1954Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 8th August 1954State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 9th August 1954Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 10th August 1954A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 11th August 1954State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 12th August 1954State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 13th August 1954Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 14th August 1954State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 15th August 1954A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 16th August 1954A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 17th August 1954In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 18th August 1954Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 19th August 1954Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 20th August 1954Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 21st August 1954Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 22nd August 1954A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 23rd August 1954A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 24th August 1954The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
- 25th August 1954Work out 84 / 12.
- 26th August 1954Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 27th August 1954Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 28th August 1954p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.
- 29th August 1954A bag has 4 yellow and 6 purple counters. Find the probability of picking a purple counter.
- 30th August 1954Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 31st August 1954A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.