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On a given day, a greengrocer sold 93 melons and 41 apples.
Write the ratio of melons to apples in the form 1:n. Give any
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If a TV programme lasts 40 minutes,
what fraction of the programme is left after: a) 10 minutes b) 15 minutes c) 35 minutes
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A cafe employs eighteen girls and twelve boys to wait at table.
Another six boys and nine girls work in the kitchen a) What
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In the diagram on the right, the area of the circle is 2/3 the area of the square. The area of the triangle is 1/5 the area of
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If I pay my gas bill within seven days, I get a reduction of an eighth of the price. If my bill is £120, how much can I save?
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The amount of sugar in Corn Crispies cereal has been reduced by 1/4. There is now 4.8g sugar in every 50g of cereal. Work out
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Onika gives money to a charity directly from her wages, before tax. One sixth of her monthly earnings goes to the charity, then
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Change these decimals to fractions (in their lowest terms)
a) 0.5 b) 0.8 c) 0.19 d) 0.25 e) 0.64 f) 0.06 g) 0.125 h) 0.075
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Write each of these ratios in its simplest form.
b) 15:21 c) 72:45 d) 24cm:36cm e) 350g:2kg f) 42p:£1.36 g) 2.9:8.7 h) 3/5:9/10
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Simplify :
a) 25:35 b) 9/4:15/2 c) 8:18 to the form 1:n
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A class of 40 students voted on where to go for a school trip.
3/5 voted for the Science Park and the rest voted for Maths World.
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This pie chart is split into equal sections. It shows the results from a survey about how often people exercise.
a) What fraction
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Zachary and Erin went to a climbing centre.
Zachary climbed 6/7 of the way up an 11.1m high wall. Erin climbed 4/9 of the way up
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Maisie takes out a loan of £840. The loan gathers compound interest at a rate of 4% per month.
How much money will Maisie owe
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Two numbers multiply together to give -20 and add together to give -1.
What are the two numbers?
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A cafe sold exactly 1100 hot drinks in a week.
The owner says that 40% of these hot drinks were coffees. This percentage is
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Makalo has five cards, numbered 1 to 5. He picks one card at random, replaces that card back in with the others, and then picks
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Which is NOT personification?
A. The party died as soon as she left. B. The working man's the backbone of the country. C. Silence
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How does Shakespeare present Macbeth's first encounter with the witches and how might an audience respond? 15 marks
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Write about the ways in which Shakespeare presents Macbeth's state of mind in this extract. 15 marks
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Look at how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth speak and behave here. How do you think an audience might respond to this part of the play?
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Look at how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth speak and behave here. How do you think an audience might respond to this part of the play?
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Examples of a sentence using alliteration:
Fancy feast
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Examples of using alliteration:
dizzily danced
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John wants to find out what people in a city think of exercise.
He selects a park in the city at random and surveys 10 joggers.
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A spider is placed on a centimetre square grid on a wall, as shown below. It starts on the point with coordinates (2, -4).
First,
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Eva wants to collect a simple random sample.
She uses a random number generator to select 5 people from a numbered list of 50
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Orla and Rachel split a sum of money between them in the ratio 5:9.
If Rachel has £40 more than Orla, what was the total amount
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Using a calculator work out
7.4 x 10^5 + 1.3 x 10^4/5.5 x 10^-4 Give your answer in standard form to 2 significant figures
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A school has 750 pupils.
b) How many boys are there in the school? c) 54% of the pupils have a school lunch, 38% bring sandwiches
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Daphne earns an annual wage of £18900. She doesn't pay tax on the first £10600 that she earns. How much tax does she pay if
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If Andy Hurray won 3 out of 5 sets in the Wimbledon Men's Final, what percentage of the sets did he not win?
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Of a resort's 25000 tourists last summer, 23750 were between 16 and 30 years old. What percentage of the tourists were not in
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On Monday, an athlete ran 5.2 miles. On Friday, she ran 6.5 miles. Give the distance she ran on Friday as a percentage of the
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John bought a new PC. The tag in the shop said it cost £890 + VAT.
If VAT is charged at 20%, how much did he pay?
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A double-glazing salesman is paid 10% commission on every sale he makes.
In addition he is paid a £50 bonus if the sale is over
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Tanya paid £6500 for her new car. Each year its value decreased by 8%.
How much was it worth when it was one year old?
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Aisha is choosing between two cars to buy. The first car is priced at £8495 and has 15% off. The second car is priced at £8195
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A savings account gains 2.5% simple interest per year. How much interest will a saver earn if they put £200 into their account
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In 2013, there were 250 students at Highmoor Sixth Form.
In 2014, there were 280 students. Work out the percentage increase from
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Lemar went on a diet. At the start he weighed 92 kg, and after one month he weighed 84kg. What is his percentage weight loss to
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Calculate the percentage saving of the following, giving your percentage to 1 d.p.
a) Jeans: Was £45 Now £35 b) CD: Was £14.99
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In the new year sales Robin bought a tennis racket for £68.00. The original price had been reduced by 15%. What was the
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There are 360 people living a certain village. The population of the village has grown by 20% over the past year. How many
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The council tells Mrs Hussein that the tree in her garden is too tall, and orders her to reduce its height by 15%. She cuts 75cm
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In 2012, Julie's salary was £23000. In 2013, her salary was 3% lower than in 2012. In 2014, Julie was given a promotion, and
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Emily has her own business making and selling greetings cards.
Each card costs her 68p to make. One day, Emily has 300 cards to
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At a running club, 30% of the members are male. 60% of the male members and 50% of the female members are training to run a
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The ratio of fiction to non-fiction books in a library is 7:3.
60% of the fiction books are hardback, and 20% of the non-fiction
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Hannah has 16 books.
50% of these books are paperback books. She gives 7 of her paperback books to a charity shop. She buys 1 new
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A right angled triangle is shown below.
Which of the following fractions is equal to sin 25?
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Choose all of the values below that are written correctly in standard form.
17 x 10^3 130,000,000 4.4 x 10^6 8.5 x 10^4 0.9 x
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0 is an angle in a right-angled triangle.
1.4/9.5 = sin 0 What is the value of 0? Give your answer in degrees to 1 d.p.
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The opening of the play demonstrates that Macbeth's fate is completely out of his hands in Act 1 Scene 1. To what extent do you
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Why is this extract a significant moment in the plot? How does it link to what goes before and after in Act 1 Scene 1 in
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A motorbike travels for 3 hours at an average speed of 55 mph. How far has it travelled?
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What are the two auxiliary verbs?
I visited Grandma as she has been sick.
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What are the five auxiliary verbs?
Since Andy is very clumsy, he should have been drinking juice from a bottle with a lid, which
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What is the largest two-digit prime number?
Circle your answer 93 95 97 99
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Freddy has twice as many siblings as Helen.
Helen has three times as many siblings as Amir. Amir has 1 sibling. How many siblings
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Gareth goes from Hunslet to Wakefield by Bus.
Gareth takes 18 minutes to get from his house to the bus stop in Hunslet. He takes
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Damien worked a total of 40 hours last week.
He worked 16 of these hours at the weekend. His colleague, Fred, got paid £400 last
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Which is the metaphor?
He has the heart of a lion. He has a big heart. His heart is as big as a lion's heart. He is as brave as a
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Which is the metaphor?
He swam in the sea of diamonds. He swam in a beautiful sea. The sea sparkled like diamonds. The sea and
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Which is the metaphor?
The group disagreed with her ideas. Her ideas were not well-liked. The group shot down her ideas. Her
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Which is the metaphor?
He ran as fast as a bullet. He is a very fast runner. He is a bullet on the track. He is fast.
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A short, unexpected loss of consciousness is called
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Past tense of lead, to guide or show the way
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A poisonous chemical element that is dark grey
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Comparative and superlative of colorful
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Jack is (tall) than Paul and (tall) than Carl. Therefore Jack is the (tall) of the boys.
Type the correct form of the comparative
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Type the correct form of the comparative or superlative of the word in brackets.
Roses are (beautiful) than poppies and smell
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Turn these examples of hyperbole into simple sentences.
I'm freezing out here. Means: I've told you that a million times. Means:
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Change these simple statements into hyperbole to emphasise an idea or feeling.
I have lots of things to do today. These new shoes
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What kinds of texts would use hyperbole? List some examples for each.
Somewhere you might see hyperbole: Somewhere you would
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Explain how the greenhouse effect keeps the earth warm.
1. Energy is transferred from the sun... 2. 3. 4. 5.
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Write the equation for the formation of nitrogen and oxygen from nitrogen dioxide in a catalytic converter.
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Write a symbol equation for the cracking of C10H22 to form octane, plus an alkene.
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Write a balanced symbol equation for the complete combustion of propane.
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Write a symbol equation for the incomplete combustion of hexane
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"... a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family, too, of course, when has one - and so long as
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Which of the following best describes the audience feelings towards Gerald in Act 2?
The audience feels that Gerald has become
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At a supermarket, you can buy a six pack of 500ml bottles of a fruit drink for £3, or a 2 litre bottle of the same fruit drink
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Gina buys one pack of each colour and makes bunches of balloons to hand out. She splits each pack evenly across the bunches.
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Romesh wants to make a giant balloon display using an equal number of red, white and blue balloons. What is the smallest number
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3/8, -0.91, 16, 7 1/5, 1, -9, 1.6522, 19/4
a) Put this list of numbers in order from lowest to highest. b) Identify the positive
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Estimate the answers to these calculations:
a) 22.1 x 37.8/8.2 b) 4.7 x 72.3/0.481
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A factory produces 139968 tennis balls a day. There are 204 people working on the production line in the factory. Estimate the
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a) What is the least possible number of rows of chairs in the theatre?
b) 28 students on a school trip sit in a single row of
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In a theatre, the chairs are arranged in rows. The number of rows is 80 to the nearest ten, and there are exactly 35 chairs per
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Evaluate the following. Write your answers in a standard form.
a) (4.8 x 10^5)/(1.2 x 10^2) b) (6 x 10^3) x (4 x 10^7) c) (7.1 x
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An arena sold 100 tickets for a concert, of which 64 are adult tickets.
The rest were child tickets. 23 of the child tickets sold
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Seven people have a meal in a restaurant. The total bill comes to £60. If they share the bill equally, how much should each of
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Give these amounts to the nearest hour:
a) 2 hours 12 mins b) 36 mins c) 12 hours 12 mins d) 29 mins e) 100 mins f) 90 mins
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Estimate the answers to these questions.
a) 18 x 12 b) 57 x 46 c) 98 x 105 d) 22/5.3 e) 901/33 f) 1007/498
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Andy earns a salary of £24108 each year.
a) Estimate how much Andy earns per month. b) Andy is hoping to get a bonus this year.
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Keimia grows and sells kiwis. She sells 206 kiwis in January, 252 kiwis in February and 161 kiwis in March. The kiwis are priced
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The runner almost won but was too exhausted in the final straight.
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He waited nervously to receive his exam results, which would soon arrive by email.
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The dog ran outside and vigorously wagged its tail.
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