Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 1979 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1979A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 2nd May 1979Find 35% of 180.
- 3rd May 1979After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 4th May 1979On 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.
- 5th May 1979Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 6th May 1979A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 7th May 1979A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 8th May 1979A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 9th May 1979State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 10th May 1979Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 11th May 1979A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 12th May 1979State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 13th May 1979State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 14th May 1979A 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.
- 15th May 1979State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 16th May 1979A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 17th May 1979What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 18th May 1979A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 19th May 1979Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 20th May 1979Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 21st May 1979Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 22nd May 1979Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 23rd May 1979A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 24th May 1979In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 25th May 1979A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 26th May 1979Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 27th May 1979A 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.
- 28th May 1979A 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.
- 29th May 1979Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 30th May 1979Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 31st May 1979Write 3/8 as a percentage.