Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1986In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 2nd October 1986A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 3rd October 1986The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 4th October 1986Find 35% of 180.
- 5th October 19863/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
- 6th October 1986Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
- 7th October 1986Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 8th October 1986A 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.
- 9th October 1986A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 10th October 1986A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 11th October 1986Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
- 12th October 1986Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
- 13th October 1986A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 14th October 1986State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 15th October 1986State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 16th October 1986State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
- 17th October 1986A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
- 18th October 1986A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 19th October 1986What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 20th October 1986A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 21st October 1986Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 22nd October 1986Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 23rd October 1986Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 24th October 1986Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 25th October 1986A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 26th October 1986In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 27th October 1986A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 28th October 1986Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 29th October 1986A class recorded how many books each of 25 students read in a month: 5 students read 0-2 books, 12 students read 3-5 books, and 8 students read 6-8 books. Using midpoints 1, 4 and 7, estimate the mean number of books read.
- 30th October 1986Prove that the sum of any three consecutive integers is always a multiple of 3.
- 31st October 1986Factorise fully 10x + 15.