Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1956In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 40 degrees and the side opposite A is 8 cm. Use trigonometry to find the length of the hypotenuse, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 2nd April 1956Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 3rd April 1956A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 4th April 1956A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 5th April 1956Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 6th April 1956Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 7th April 1956Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 8th April 1956A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 9th April 1956A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 10th April 1956Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 11th April 1956Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 12th April 1956Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 13th April 1956Name one renewable energy resource.
- 14th April 1956Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
- 15th April 1956A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 16th April 1956Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 17th April 1956Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 18th April 1956In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 19th April 1956Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 20th April 1956A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 21st April 1956An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 22nd April 1956A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 23rd April 1956Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
- 24th April 1956Work out 12 x 7.
- 25th April 1956Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 26th April 1956Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 27th April 1956Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 28th April 1956108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 29th April 1956Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 30th April 1956Write 5/8 as a decimal.