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October 1975 5-a-day

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October 1975

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in October 1975

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 1975A survey asked 30 people how many siblings they have: 9 have 0, 12 have 1, 6 have 2, 3 have 3. Work out the mean number of siblings.
  2. 2nd October 1975A machine produces 480 items in a day that lasts 7.5 hours. Work out the number of items produced per hour.
  3. 3rd October 1975Work out 6^2 - sqrt(49).
  4. 4th October 1975Write 0.6 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  5. 5th October 1975Two fair coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting at least one tail.
  6. 6th October 1975Which of the seven life processes describes an organism getting rid of waste products made inside its body?
  7. 7th October 1975State the name of the change of state when a solid changes directly into a liquid.
  8. 8th October 1975A trolley of mass 20 kg is pushed with a resultant force of 60 N. Use force = mass x acceleration to calculate its acceleration.
  9. 9th October 1975A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
  10. 10th October 1975Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
  11. 11th October 1975Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
  12. 12th October 1975A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
  13. 13th October 1975Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
  14. 14th October 1975Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
  15. 15th October 1975A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
  16. 16th October 1975Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
  17. 17th October 1975A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
  18. 18th October 1975Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
  19. 19th October 1975In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
  20. 20th October 1975An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
  21. 21st October 1975Find 30% of 150.
  22. 22nd October 1975Work out 13^2.
  23. 23rd October 1975Find 5/6 of 72.
  24. 24th October 1975A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
  25. 25th October 1975A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
  26. 26th October 1975Calculate 74 - 38.
  27. 27th October 1975Work out -7 + 15.
  28. 28th October 1975A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
  29. 29th October 1975State one way the xylem is adapted for transporting water up a plant.
  30. 30th October 1975In a chromatography experiment, the solvent front travels 10 cm and a dye spot travels 4 cm. Calculate the Rf value of the dye.
  31. 31st October 1975A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.