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May 1966 5-a-day

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May 1966

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st May 1966What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  2. 2nd May 1966Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
  3. 3rd May 1966A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
  4. 4th May 1966Find 35% of 180.
  5. 5th May 1966After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
  6. 6th May 1966On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
  7. 7th May 1966Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
  8. 8th May 1966A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
  9. 9th May 1966A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  10. 10th May 1966A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
  11. 11th May 1966State two functions of the human skeleton.
  12. 12th May 1966Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
  13. 13th May 1966A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
  14. 14th May 1966Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
  15. 15th May 1966State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
  16. 16th May 1966A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
  17. 17th May 1966State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
  18. 18th May 1966A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
  19. 19th May 1966What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  20. 20th May 1966A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
  21. 21st May 1966Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
  22. 22nd May 1966Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
  23. 23rd May 1966Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
  24. 24th May 1966Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
  25. 25th May 1966Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
  26. 26th May 1966In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
  27. 27th May 1966A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  28. 28th May 1966Simplify the ratio 32:12.
  29. 29th May 1966A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
  30. 30th May 1966A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
  31. 31st May 1966Factorise fully 10x + 15.