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April 1963 5-a-day

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April 1963

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in April 1963

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st April 1963Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  2. 2nd April 1963A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
  3. 3rd April 1963Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
  4. 4th April 1963Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
  5. 5th April 1963Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
  6. 6th April 1963120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
  7. 7th April 1963State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
  8. 8th April 1963Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
  9. 9th April 1963A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
  10. 10th April 1963Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
  11. 11th April 1963A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
  12. 12th April 1963Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
  13. 13th April 1963State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
  14. 14th April 1963In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
  15. 15th April 1963In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
  16. 16th April 1963A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
  17. 17th April 1963An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
  18. 18th April 1963Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
  19. 19th April 1963Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
  20. 20th April 1963Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
  21. 21st April 1963Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
  22. 22nd April 1963Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
  23. 23rd April 1963A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
  24. 24th April 1963Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
  25. 25th April 1963Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
  26. 26th April 1963Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
  27. 27th April 1963Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
  28. 28th April 1963Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
  29. 29th April 1963A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
  30. 30th April 1963A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.