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October 1973 5-a-day

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October 1973

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in October 1973

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

  1. 1st October 1973Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
  2. 2nd October 1973Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
  3. 3rd October 1973What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  4. 4th October 1973Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
  5. 5th October 1973The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
  6. 6th October 1973Find 35% of 180.
  7. 7th October 19733/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
  8. 8th October 1973Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
  9. 9th October 1973Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
  10. 10th October 1973A 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.
  11. 11th October 1973A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  12. 12th October 1973A 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.
  13. 13th October 1973Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
  14. 14th October 1973Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
  15. 15th October 1973A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
  16. 16th October 1973Two 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.
  17. 17th October 1973State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
  18. 18th October 1973State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
  19. 19th October 1973A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
  20. 20th October 1973A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
  21. 21st October 1973What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  22. 22nd October 1973A 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?
  23. 23rd October 1973Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
  24. 24th October 1973Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
  25. 25th October 1973Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
  26. 26th October 1973Punctuate 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
  27. 27th October 1973Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
  28. 28th October 1973In 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.
  29. 29th October 1973A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  30. 30th October 1973Simplify the ratio 32:12.
  31. 31st October 1973A class recorded how many books each of 25 students read in a month: 5 students read 0-2 books, 12 students read 3-5 books, and 8 students read 6-8 books. Using midpoints 1, 4 and 7, estimate the mean number of books read.