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May 1991 5-a-day

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May 1991

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st May 1991A 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?
  2. 2nd May 1991Find 2/5 of 65.
  3. 3rd May 1991Work out 40% of 65.
  4. 4th May 1991A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
  5. 5th May 1991p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
  6. 6th May 1991Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  7. 7th May 1991Work out 5/6 of 90.
  8. 8th May 1991In 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 May 1991A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
  10. 10th May 1991A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
  11. 11th May 1991Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  12. 12th May 1991Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  13. 13th May 1991Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
  14. 14th May 1991Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
  15. 15th May 1991Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  16. 16th May 1991A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
  17. 17th May 1991A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
  18. 18th May 1991What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
  19. 19th May 1991A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
  20. 20th May 1991Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
  21. 21st May 1991Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
  22. 22nd May 1991A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
  23. 23rd May 1991A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
  24. 24th May 1991A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
  25. 25th May 1991A 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 May 1991Write 3/5 as a decimal.
  27. 27th May 1991Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  28. 28th May 1991A 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 May 1991Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).
  30. 30th May 1991Simplify sqrt(75) - sqrt(12), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(3).
  31. 31st May 1991Work out 9.6 divided by 0.4.