Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1992 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1992
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1992A scatter graph plots the number of hours 10 students spent revising against their test scores. The points show that more hours of revision is generally associated with a higher test score, though not perfectly. Describe the type of correlation shown, and state one thing this correlation does not prove.
- 2nd February 1992Simplify (3x^2 y^3)^2 divided by 9x^3 y^4, giving your answer as simply as possible.
- 3rd February 1992Expand 4(3x + 2).
- 4th February 1992Work out 12.6 divided by 0.3.
- 5th February 1992Fatima earns 1800 pounds a month and saves 12% of her earnings. Calculate how much she saves each month.
- 6th February 1992Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
- 7th February 1992State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
- 8th February 1992Name one non-renewable energy resource used to generate electricity, other than coal.
- 9th February 1992Name the five main kingdoms into which living things can be classified.
- 10th February 1992A trolley of mass 2 kg is raised to a height of 5 m. Use GPE = mass x gravitational field strength x height (g = 10 N/kg) to calculate its gravitational potential energy.
- 11th February 1992Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
- 12th February 1992Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Last week, the team trains hard and wins every match.
- 13th February 1992In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
- 14th February 1992A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 15th February 1992Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 16th February 1992Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 17th February 1992Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 18th February 1992A leaflet states: 'Experts agree that recycling just one more item a week could transform our town's waste problem.' Name one persuasive technique used here.
- 19th February 1992Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 20th February 1992p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
- 21st February 1992Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 22nd February 1992Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 23rd February 1992A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 24th February 1992Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 25th February 1992A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 26th February 1992A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 27th February 1992A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 28th February 1992Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 29th February 1992A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.