Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1973 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1973
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1973Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 2nd February 1973Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 3rd February 1973Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 4th February 1973At 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.
- 5th February 1973A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 6th February 1973Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 7th February 1973A 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.
- 8th February 1973State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 9th February 1973Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 10th February 1973Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 11th February 1973A 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.
- 12th February 1973A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 13th February 1973A 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.
- 14th February 1973A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 15th February 1973Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 16th February 1973Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 17th February 1973Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 18th February 1973What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 19th February 1973A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 20th February 1973On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 21st February 1973A 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.
- 22nd February 1973Find 3/8 of 64.
- 23rd February 1973A 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.
- 24th February 1973A 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.)
- 25th February 1973In 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.
- 26th February 1973A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 27th February 1973Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 28th February 1973Find 25% of 84 pounds.