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November 1984 5-a-day

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November 1984

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

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.

  1. 1st November 1984Find 2/5 of 65.
  2. 2nd November 1984A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
  3. 3rd November 1984Work out 56 / 7.
  4. 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.
  5. 5th November 1984Work out 3/4 of 148.
  6. 6th November 1984Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
  7. 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?
  8. 8th November 1984Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
  9. 9th November 1984Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
  10. 10th November 1984Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  11. 11th November 1984Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 14th November 1984Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  15. 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.
  16. 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?
  17. 17th November 1984Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
  18. 18th November 1984A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
  19. 19th November 1984Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
  20. 20th November 1984Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
  21. 21st November 1984Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
  22. 22nd November 1984Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
  23. 23rd November 1984Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
  24. 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.)
  25. 25th November 1984Find 35% of 180.
  26. 26th November 1984Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  27. 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.
  28. 28th November 1984Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
  29. 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.
  30. 30th November 1984A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.