Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1977 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1977
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1977A rectangle has an area of 84 cm^2 and a length of 9.6 cm. Work out its width, to 1 decimal place.
- 2nd December 1977Decrease 350 pounds by 18%.
- 3rd December 1977Work out 2/5 of 65.
- 4th December 1977Five pupils recorded the number of minutes they spent reading yesterday: 9, 13, 20, 11, 17. Find the mean number of minutes.
- 5th December 1977Name the organelle found in both plant and animal cells that is the site of aerobic respiration.
- 6th December 1977A block of wood has a mass of 60 g and a volume of 80 cm^3. Calculate its density.
- 7th December 1977A farmer weighing 900 N stands on the ground. Her boots have a total sole area of 0.03 m^2. Use pressure = force / area to calculate the pressure she exerts on the ground, giving your answer in Pa.
- 8th December 1977State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 9th December 1977State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 10th December 1977Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
- 11th December 1977A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 12th December 1977Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the handle was rusted solid, the door creaked open at last."
- 13th December 1977Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: hurry up whispered Kofi we havent got much time
- 14th December 1977A question asks you to 'state one reason why the train was delayed, using evidence from the text.' What kind of answer is required?
- 15th December 1977A diver notices 'a single brass buckle winking in the torchlight.' Which word suggests the buckle is briefly catching and reflecting the light?
- 16th December 1977In the phrase "silent, secret snow", which technique is being used?
- 17th December 1977What is a counter-argument, and why might a writer include one?
- 18th December 1977In the phrase "silent, snow-hushed streets", which technique is being used?
- 19th December 1977Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 20th December 1977A pack of 24 pencils costs 3.60 pounds. Work out the cost of one pencil.
- 21st December 1977Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 22nd December 1977A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 23rd December 19773 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 24th December 1977Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 25th December 1977Work out 9 x 8.
- 26th December 1977A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 27th December 1977Work out 15% of 60.
- 28th December 1977State one way the xylem is adapted for transporting water up a plant.
- 29th December 1977In a chromatography experiment, the solvent front travels 10 cm and a dye spot travels 4 cm. Calculate the Rf value of the dye.
- 30th December 1977State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.
- 31st December 1977Name the green pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.