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May 1992 5-a-day

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May 1992

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st May 1992On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
  2. 2nd May 1992Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
  3. 3rd May 1992A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
  4. 4th May 1992A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  5. 5th May 1992A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
  6. 6th May 1992State two functions of the human skeleton.
  7. 7th May 1992Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
  8. 8th May 1992State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
  9. 9th May 1992State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.
  10. 10th May 1992Name the organ system that carries electrical signals around the body to allow a fast reflex reaction, such as pulling a hand away from something hot.
  11. 11th May 1992A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
  12. 12th May 1992State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
  13. 13th May 1992A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
  14. 14th May 1992What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  15. 15th May 1992A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
  16. 16th May 1992Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
  17. 17th May 1992Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
  18. 18th May 1992Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
  19. 19th May 1992Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
  20. 20th May 1992A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
  21. 21st May 1992In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
  22. 22nd May 1992A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  23. 23rd May 1992Simplify the ratio 32:12.
  24. 24th May 1992A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
  25. 25th May 1992A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
  26. 26th May 1992Factorise fully 10x + 15.
  27. 27th May 1992Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
  28. 28th May 1992A jacket priced at 84 pounds is increased by 25% for the winter season. Calculate the new price.
  29. 29th May 1992On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.
  30. 30th May 1992In the disappearing cross experiment, a student times how long it takes for a cross under the flask to disappear from view. Explain why a shorter time indicates a faster reaction.
  31. 31st May 1992State the unit normally used for speed in physics, and name one other unit that speed could also correctly be measured in.