Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1993 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1993
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1993Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 2nd January 1993Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 3rd January 1993A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 4th January 1993Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 5th January 1993A drawer contains 4 black socks and 6 white socks only. Two socks are taken out at random, one after another, without replacement. Work out the probability that both socks are white.
- 6th January 1993A two-digit number is 7 times the sum of its digits. The digit in the tens place is one more than the digit in the units place. Find the two-digit number.
- 7th January 1993Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 8th January 1993Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 9th January 1993A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 10th January 1993State one way a red blood cell is adapted to carry oxygen efficiently.
- 11th January 1993A reaction between magnesium ribbon and hydrochloric acid gives off heat, and the temperature of the acid rises from 20 degrees C to 35 degrees C. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic, and explain how you know.
- 12th January 1993A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 13th January 1993A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 14th January 1993State whether respiration in muscle cells during hard exercise, when oxygen supply cannot keep up with demand, is aerobic or anaerobic.
- 15th January 1993Name the layer of gases surrounding the Earth that contains the oxygen needed for respiration.
- 16th January 1993In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
- 17th January 1993A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 18th January 1993A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 19th January 1993Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 20th January 1993Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 21st January 1993Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 22nd January 1993Is the claim 'this is the most dangerous road crossing in the whole town' a fact or an opinion? Explain your answer.
- 23rd January 1993Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 24th January 1993In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 40 degrees and the side opposite A is 8 cm. Use trigonometry to find the length of the hypotenuse, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 25th January 1993Find 3/8 of 64.
- 26th January 1993Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 27th January 1993A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 28th January 1993Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.
- 29th January 1993Increase 240 pounds by 12%.
- 30th January 1993Work out 312 divided by 8, using a written method.
- 31st January 1993The list shows the number of pets owned by 9 pupils: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 0, 1. Write down the mode.