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March 1989 5-a-day

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March 1989

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st March 1989In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
  2. 2nd March 1989Find 2/5 of 65.
  3. 3rd March 1989Simplify the ratio 45:30.
  4. 4th March 1989Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
  5. 5th March 1989A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  6. 6th March 1989A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
  7. 7th March 1989A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
  8. 8th March 1989In 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?
  9. 9th March 1989A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
  10. 10th March 1989Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
  11. 11th March 1989Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  12. 12th March 1989Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  13. 13th March 1989A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
  14. 14th March 1989State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
  15. 15th March 1989Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  16. 16th March 1989A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
  17. 17th March 1989Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
  18. 18th March 1989Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
  19. 19th March 1989What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
  20. 20th March 1989Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
  21. 21st March 1989Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
  22. 22nd March 1989Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
  23. 23rd March 1989In 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?
  24. 24th March 1989A 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.
  25. 25th March 1989A 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.)
  26. 26th March 1989Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
  27. 27th March 1989Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  28. 28th March 1989A 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.
  29. 29th March 1989Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
  30. 30th March 1989Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
  31. 31st March 1989Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).