Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 1999 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in October 1999, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in October 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1999The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 2nd October 1999Find 35% of 180.
- 3rd October 19993/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
- 4th October 1999Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
- 5th October 1999Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 6th October 1999A 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.
- 7th October 1999A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 8th October 1999A 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.
- 9th October 1999Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
- 10th October 1999Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
- 11th October 1999State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
- 12th October 1999State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.
- 13th October 1999Name 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.
- 14th October 1999State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
- 15th October 1999A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
- 16th October 1999A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 17th October 1999What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 18th October 1999A 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?
- 19th October 1999Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 20th October 1999Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 21st October 1999Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 22nd October 1999Punctuate 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
- 23rd October 1999A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
- 24th October 1999In 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.
- 25th October 1999A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 26th October 1999Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 27th October 1999A class recorded how many books each of 25 students read in a month: 5 students read 0-2 books, 12 students read 3-5 books, and 8 students read 6-8 books. Using midpoints 1, 4 and 7, estimate the mean number of books read.
- 28th October 1999Prove that the sum of any three consecutive integers is always a multiple of 3.
- 29th October 1999Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 30th October 1999Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 31st October 1999A jacket priced at 84 pounds is increased by 25% for the winter season. Calculate the new price.