Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1970 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1970
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1970Work out 40% of 65.
- 2nd December 1970A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 3rd December 1970p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 4th December 1970Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 5th December 1970Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 6th December 1970At 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.
- 7th December 1970A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 8th December 1970The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 9th December 1970A 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.
- 10th December 1970State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 11th December 1970Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 12th December 1970Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 13th December 1970A 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.
- 14th December 1970A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 15th December 1970A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 16th December 1970What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 17th December 1970A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 18th December 1970Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 19th December 1970Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 20th December 1970A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 21st December 1970You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 22nd December 1970A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 23rd December 1970A 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.
- 24th December 1970Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 25th December 1970A 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.
- 26th December 1970A 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.)
- 27th December 1970Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).
- 28th December 1970Simplify sqrt(75) - sqrt(12), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(3).
- 29th December 1970Work out 9.6 divided by 0.4.
- 30th December 1970Calculate 47 + 36.
- 31st December 1970Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.