Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1989 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 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?
- 2nd March 1989Find 2/5 of 65.
- 3rd March 1989Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 4th March 1989Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 5th March 1989A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 6th March 1989A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 7th March 1989A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 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?
- 9th March 1989A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 10th March 1989Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
- 11th March 1989Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 12th March 1989Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 13th March 1989A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
- 14th March 1989State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
- 15th March 1989Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 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.
- 17th March 1989Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 18th March 1989Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 19th March 1989What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 20th March 1989Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 21st March 1989Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.)
- 26th March 1989Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 27th March 1989Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 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.
- 29th March 1989Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 30th March 1989Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 31st March 1989Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).