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January 1975 5-a-day

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January 1975

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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

  1. 1st January 1975Find 3/8 of 64.
  2. 2nd January 1975After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
  3. 3rd January 1975On 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.
  4. 4th January 1975In 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.
  5. 5th January 1975A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
  6. 6th January 1975Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
  7. 7th January 1975Find 25% of 84 pounds.
  8. 8th January 1975State two functions of the human skeleton.
  9. 9th January 1975Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
  10. 10th January 1975State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
  11. 11th January 1975State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.
  12. 12th January 1975Name the organ system that carries electrical signals around the body to allow a fast reflex reaction, such as pulling a hand away from something hot.
  13. 13th January 1975A 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.
  14. 14th January 1975State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
  15. 15th January 1975A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  16. 16th January 1975A 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?
  17. 17th January 1975In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
  18. 18th January 1975Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
  19. 19th January 1975Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
  20. 20th January 1975Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
  21. 21st January 1975Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
  22. 22nd January 1975A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
  23. 23rd January 1975A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  24. 24th January 1975The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
  25. 25th January 1975Work out 84 / 12.
  26. 26th January 1975A 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.
  27. 27th January 1975A 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.
  28. 28th January 1975p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.
  29. 29th January 1975A bag has 4 yellow and 6 purple counters. Find the probability of picking a purple counter.
  30. 30th January 1975A jacket priced at 84 pounds is increased by 25% for the winter season. Calculate the new price.
  31. 31st January 1975On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.