Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1989 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1989A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 2nd September 1989A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 3rd September 1989Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 4th September 1989Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 5th September 1989Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 6th September 1989A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 7th September 1989A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 8th September 1989Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 9th September 1989Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 10th September 1989A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
- 11th September 1989Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
- 12th September 1989A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 13th September 1989A pupil's results table is missing units for one column, headed only 'Volume'. State why it is important to always include a unit in a column heading or with a numerical answer.
- 14th September 1989Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 15th September 1989Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 16th September 1989In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 17th September 1989Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 18th September 1989A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 19th September 1989An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 20th September 1989A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 21st September 1989Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
- 22nd September 1989Work out 12 x 7.
- 23rd September 1989Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 24th September 1989Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 25th September 1989Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 26th September 1989108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 27th September 1989Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 28th September 1989Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 29th September 1989Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 30th September 1989Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.