Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1983 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1983
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1983p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 2nd December 1983Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 3rd December 1983Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 4th December 1983At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.
- 5th December 1983A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 6th December 1983A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 7th December 1983A food sample turns from blue to brick-red when Benedict's solution is added and the mixture is heated. State which nutrient this positive result shows is present.
- 8th December 1983State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 9th December 1983Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 10th December 1983Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 11th December 1983A pupil measures the volume of a gas produced in a reaction every 30 seconds. State whether the volume of gas is the independent or the dependent variable.
- 12th December 1983A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 13th December 1983A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 14th December 1983What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 15th December 1983A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 16th December 1983Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 17th December 1983Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 18th December 1983A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 19th December 1983A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 20th December 1983A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 21st December 1983A survey asked 20 people how many pets they own: 5 people own 0 pets, 8 own 1 pet, 4 own 2 pets, and 3 own 3 pets. Work out the mean number of pets owned.
- 22nd December 1983Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 23rd December 1983A recipe for 8 people uses flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1 by weight, totalling 800 g. Work out how many grams of sugar are needed to make the recipe for 12 people.
- 24th December 1983A circle has a radius of 10 cm. Work out the area of a sector with an angle of 72 degrees at the centre, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 25th December 1983Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).
- 26th December 1983Simplify sqrt(75) - sqrt(12), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(3).
- 27th December 1983Work out 9.6 divided by 0.4.
- 28th December 1983Calculate 47 + 36.
- 29th December 1983Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 30th December 1983Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 31st December 1983In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.