Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1960Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
- 2nd February 1960Find 1/3 of 96.
- 3rd February 1960Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
- 4th February 1960Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 5th February 1960Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 6th February 1960Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 7th February 1960At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.
- 8th February 1960A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 9th February 1960Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 10th February 1960A food sample turns from blue to brick-red when Benedict's solution is added and the mixture is heated. State which nutrient this positive result shows is present.
- 11th February 1960State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 12th February 1960A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 13th February 1960In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 14th February 1960A pupil measures the volume of a gas produced in a reaction every 30 seconds. State whether the volume of gas is the independent or the dependent variable.
- 15th February 1960A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 16th February 1960A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
- 17th February 1960A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 18th February 1960Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 19th February 1960Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 20th February 1960Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 21st February 1960What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 22nd February 1960Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 23rd February 1960Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
- 24th February 1960A survey asked 20 people how many pets they own: 5 people own 0 pets, 8 own 1 pet, 4 own 2 pets, and 3 own 3 pets. Work out the mean number of pets owned.
- 25th February 1960Find 3/8 of 64.
- 26th February 1960A recipe for 8 people uses flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1 by weight, totalling 800 g. Work out how many grams of sugar are needed to make the recipe for 12 people.
- 27th February 1960A circle has a radius of 10 cm. Work out the area of a sector with an angle of 72 degrees at the centre, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 28th February 1960In 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.
- 29th February 1960A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.