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June 1959 5-a-day

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June 1959

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st June 19593 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
  2. 2nd June 1959Find 10% of 95 pounds.
  3. 3rd June 1959Work out 9 x 8.
  4. 4th June 1959A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
  5. 5th June 1959Work out 15% of 60.
  6. 6th June 1959Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
  7. 7th June 1959Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
  8. 8th June 1959State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
  9. 9th June 1959A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
  10. 10th June 1959Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
  11. 11th June 1959State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
  12. 12th June 1959A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
  13. 13th June 1959Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
  14. 14th June 1959Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
  15. 15th June 1959Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
  16. 16th June 1959A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
  17. 17th June 1959A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
  18. 18th June 1959Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
  19. 19th June 1959In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
  20. 20th June 1959Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
  21. 21st June 1959Simplify the ratio 45:30.
  22. 22nd June 1959Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
  23. 23rd June 1959A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  24. 24th June 1959A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
  25. 25th June 1959A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
  26. 26th June 1959A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
  27. 27th June 1959A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
  28. 28th June 1959Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
  29. 29th June 1959Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
  30. 30th June 1959A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.