Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1958 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1958
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1958In 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 June 1958A triangle has base 10 cm and height 7 cm. Work out its area.
- 3rd June 1958p is inversely proportional to q^2. When q = 2, p = 18. Work out p when q = 3.
- 4th June 1958The nth term of a sequence is 6n - 4. Work out the 12th term.
- 5th June 1958A car journey of 156 miles takes 2.4 hours. Work out the average speed, to the nearest mile per hour.
- 6th June 1958A rectangle has a perimeter of 38 cm and a width of 6.5 cm. Work out its length.
- 7th June 1958Find the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 7 cm.
- 8th June 1958A box contains 7 yellow pencils, 5 blue pencils and 3 green pencils. A pencil is picked at random. Find the probability that it is not blue.
- 9th June 1958State one structure found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
- 10th June 1958A sample of matter has particles that are far apart and moving quickly in random directions. State which state of matter this describes.
- 11th June 1958In a tug of war, Team X pulls with a force of 640 N and Team Y pulls with a force of 590 N in the opposite direction. Calculate the resultant force acting on the rope.
- 12th June 1958A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
- 13th June 1958Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
- 14th June 1958Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
- 15th June 1958A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 16th June 1958Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
- 17th June 1958Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
- 18th June 1958A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
- 19th June 1958A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 20th June 1958A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
- 21st June 1958Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
- 22nd June 1958A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
- 23rd June 1958An 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.
- 24th June 1958Work out -4 - 7.
- 25th June 1958Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
- 26th June 1958Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
- 27th June 1958A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
- 28th June 1958Calculate 56 + 29.
- 29th June 1958Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
- 30th June 1958A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.