Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1988A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 2nd April 1988Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 3rd April 1988At 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.
- 4th April 1988A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 5th April 1988The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 6th April 1988A 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.
- 7th April 1988State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 8th April 1988Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 9th April 1988Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 10th April 1988A 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.
- 11th April 1988Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 12th April 1988In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 13th April 1988Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 14th April 1988Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 15th April 1988Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 16th April 1988Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 17th April 1988Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 18th April 1988You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 19th April 1988A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 20th April 1988A 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.
- 21st April 1988Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 22nd April 1988A 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.
- 23rd April 1988A 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.)
- 24th April 1988Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 25th April 1988Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 26th April 1988A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 27th April 1988Work out 9 x 7.
- 28th April 1988Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 29th April 1988Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 30th April 1988Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.