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June 1989 5-a-day

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June 1989

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st June 1989Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
  2. 2nd June 1989A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
  3. 3rd June 1989A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
  4. 4th June 1989A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
  5. 5th June 1989Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
  6. 6th June 1989A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
  7. 7th June 1989Work out -3 - 6.
  8. 8th June 1989Work out -9 + 15.
  9. 9th June 1989In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
  10. 10th June 1989State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
  11. 11th June 1989State the law of reflection.
  12. 12th June 1989A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
  13. 13th June 1989State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
  14. 14th June 1989Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
  15. 15th June 1989A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
  16. 16th June 1989Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
  17. 17th June 1989Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
  18. 18th June 1989What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
  19. 19th June 1989Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
  20. 20th June 1989A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
  21. 21st June 1989Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
  22. 22nd June 1989A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  23. 23rd June 1989A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
  24. 24th June 1989Work out 40% of 65.
  25. 25th June 1989A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
  26. 26th June 1989p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
  27. 27th June 1989Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  28. 28th June 1989Work out 5/6 of 90.
  29. 29th June 1989A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
  30. 30th June 1989A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.