Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1975 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1975
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1975Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 2nd April 1975Find 2/9 of 63.
- 3rd April 1975Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 4th April 1975A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 5th April 1975Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 6th April 1975At 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 April 1975A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 8th April 1975Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 9th April 1975A 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 April 1975State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 11th April 1975A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 12th April 1975State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 13th April 1975A 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 April 1975Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 15th April 1975In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 16th April 1975Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 17th April 1975Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 18th April 1975Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 19th April 1975Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 20th April 1975Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 21st April 1975A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 22nd April 1975A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 23rd April 1975A 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 April 1975Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 25th April 1975A 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 April 1975A 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 April 1975Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 28th April 1975Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 29th April 1975A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 30th April 1975Work out 9 x 7.