Daily Practice

Higher Plus

25th October 1966

5 questions · 15 marks · Grades 8-9 · 51 question types in this band

1
Conditional Probability3 marks
A bag holds 4 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Given the first was red, what is the probability the second is blue?
2
Histograms3 marks
A histogram has four 20-wide classes from 0, with frequency densities 1, 2, 3, 0.5. Which class contains the median?
3
Surds3 marks
Expand and simplify (9 + sqrt(5))(9 - sqrt(5)).
4
The Nth Term of a Quadratic Sequence3 marks
Work out the nth term of the quadratic sequence 4, 12, 26, 46, ...
5
Direct and Inverse Proportion Depth3 marks
y is inversely proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 144. Work out y when x = 6.

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