Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1984 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1984
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1984Find 2/5 of 65.
- 2nd November 1984A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 3rd November 1984Work out 56 / 7.
- 4th November 1984In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 5th November 1984Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 6th November 1984Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 7th November 1984In 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?
- 8th November 1984Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 9th November 1984Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 10th November 1984Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 11th November 1984Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 12th November 1984A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 13th November 1984In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 14th November 1984Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 15th November 1984A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 16th November 1984A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 17th November 1984Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 18th November 1984A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 19th November 1984Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 20th November 1984Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 21st November 1984Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 22nd November 1984Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 23rd November 1984Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
- 24th November 1984A 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.)
- 25th November 1984Find 35% of 180.
- 26th November 1984Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 27th November 1984A 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.
- 28th November 1984Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 29th November 1984A 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.
- 30th November 1984A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.