Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1976 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1976
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1976Write 0.00042 in standard form.
- 2nd September 1976Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 3rd September 1976A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 4th September 1976A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 5th September 1976Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 6th September 1976Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 7th September 1976Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 8th September 1976A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 9th September 1976A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 10th September 1976Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 11th September 1976Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 12th September 1976State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 13th September 1976Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 14th September 1976A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 15th September 1976A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.
- 16th September 1976Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 17th September 1976Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 18th September 1976In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 19th September 1976Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 20th September 1976A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 21st September 1976An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 22nd September 1976A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 23rd September 1976A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 24th September 1976Work out 12 x 7.
- 25th September 1976Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 26th September 1976Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 27th September 1976Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 28th September 1976108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 29th September 1976Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 30th September 1976Write 5/8 as a decimal.