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April 1982 5-a-day

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April 1982

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in April 1982

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st April 1982Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
  2. 2nd April 1982Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
  3. 3rd April 1982Simplify the ratio 45:60.
  4. 4th April 1982A 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.
  5. 5th April 1982A 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.
  6. 6th April 1982Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
  7. 7th April 1982Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
  8. 8th April 1982A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
  9. 9th April 1982Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
  10. 10th April 1982Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
  11. 11th April 1982A pupil's results table is missing units for one column, headed only 'Volume'. State why it is important to always include a unit in a column heading or with a numerical answer.
  12. 12th April 1982Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
  13. 13th April 1982Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
  14. 14th April 1982In 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?
  15. 15th April 1982Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
  16. 16th April 1982A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
  17. 17th April 1982An 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?
  18. 18th April 1982A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
  19. 19th April 1982Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
  20. 20th April 1982Work out 12 x 7.
  21. 21st April 1982Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
  22. 22nd April 1982Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
  23. 23rd April 1982Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
  24. 24th April 1982108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
  25. 25th April 1982Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  26. 26th April 1982Write 5/8 as a decimal.
  27. 27th April 1982Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
  28. 28th April 1982State one way the xylem is adapted for transporting water up a plant.
  29. 29th April 1982In a chromatography experiment, the solvent front travels 10 cm and a dye spot travels 4 cm. Calculate the Rf value of the dye.
  30. 30th April 1982Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.