Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1969 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1969
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1969A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 2nd April 1969A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 3rd April 1969Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 4th April 1969Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 5th April 1969Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 6th April 1969A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 7th April 1969A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 8th April 1969Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 9th April 1969Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 10th April 1969State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 11th April 1969Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 12th April 1969Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
- 13th April 1969A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.
- 14th April 1969Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 15th April 1969Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 16th April 1969In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 17th April 1969Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 18th April 1969A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 19th April 1969An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 20th April 1969A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 21st April 1969A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 22nd April 1969Work out 12 x 7.
- 23rd April 1969Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 24th April 1969Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 25th April 1969Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 26th April 1969108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 27th April 1969Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 28th April 1969Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 29th April 1969Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 30th April 1969State one way the xylem is adapted for transporting water up a plant.