Daily Practice

Higher Plus

30th September 1966

5 questions · 13 marks · Grades 8-9 · 51 question types in this band

1
3d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 9 cm by 10 cm by 7 cm tall. Work out the angle between its longest internal diagonal and the base, to 1 decimal place.
2
Conditional Probability3 marks
A bag holds 4 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Given the first was red, what is the probability the second is blue?
3
Histograms2 marks
On a histogram, a 10-wide bar and a 40-wide bar have the same frequency density of 1.5. How many more values are in the wider class?
4
Surds3 marks
Rationalise the denominator of 20/sqrt(2), giving your answer in its simplest form.
5
Proof2 marks
In an algebraic proof, how would you write the number two more than an even number in terms of an integer n?

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