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July 1980 5-a-day

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July 1980

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st July 1980Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
  2. 2nd July 1980A diver signals "all clear" with a steady hand, but his eyes keep darting towards the wreck's dark entrance. Explain what the contrast between his signal and his eyes suggests.
  3. 3rd July 1980Find 2/5 of 65.
  4. 4th July 1980Find 1/3 of 96.
  5. 5th July 1980Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
  6. 6th July 1980Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
  7. 7th July 1980Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
  8. 8th July 1980Work out 143 divided by 11.
  9. 9th July 1980In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
  10. 10th July 1980A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
  11. 11th July 1980Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
  12. 12th July 1980Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  13. 13th July 1980Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  14. 14th July 1980Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
  15. 15th July 1980Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
  16. 16th July 1980Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  17. 17th July 1980A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
  18. 18th July 1980A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
  19. 19th July 1980A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
  20. 20th July 1980Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
  21. 21st July 1980Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
  22. 22nd July 1980Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
  23. 23rd July 1980What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
  24. 24th July 1980A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
  25. 25th July 1980On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
  26. 26th July 1980A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  27. 27th July 1980Find 3/8 of 64.
  28. 28th July 1980Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  29. 29th July 1980A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
  30. 30th July 1980In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
  31. 31st July 1980A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.