Daily Practice

Higher Plus

13th March 1970

5 questions · 14 marks · Grades 8-9 · 51 question types in this band

1
3d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 9 cm by 12 cm by 4 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 6 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 4-wide bar and a 16-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 70/sqrt(7), giving your answer in its simplest form.
5
Iteration3 marks
Use the iteration x(n+1) = cube root of (4x(n) + 7) with x(0) = 1. Work out x(1) to 3 decimal places.

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