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January 1956 5-a-day

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January 1956

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st January 1956An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
  2. 2nd January 1956Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
  3. 3rd January 1956A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
  4. 4th January 1956A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
  5. 5th January 1956A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
  6. 6th January 1956Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
  7. 7th January 1956A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
  8. 8th January 1956Work out -3 - 6.
  9. 9th January 1956Work out -9 + 15.
  10. 10th January 1956Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
  11. 11th January 1956State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
  12. 12th January 1956A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
  13. 13th January 1956State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
  14. 14th January 1956Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
  15. 15th January 1956A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
  16. 16th January 1956A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
  17. 17th January 1956Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
  18. 18th January 1956Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
  19. 19th January 1956What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
  20. 20th January 1956Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
  21. 21st January 1956A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
  22. 22nd January 1956Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
  23. 23rd January 1956A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  24. 24th January 1956The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
  25. 25th January 1956Work out 40% of 65.
  26. 26th January 1956A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
  27. 27th January 1956p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
  28. 28th January 1956Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  29. 29th January 1956Work out 5/6 of 90.
  30. 30th January 1956A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
  31. 31st January 1956A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.