Daily Practice

Higher Plus

22nd October 1979

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

1
3d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 10 cm by 14 cm by 11 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 3 red and 5 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Given the first was red, what is the probability the second is blue?
3
Histograms3 marks
A histogram has two bars: one 20 units wide with frequency density 2.5, one 20 units wide with density 1.4. How many values in total?
4
Bounds3 marks
A block has mass 420 g (to the nearest 10 g) and volume 16 cm^3 (to the nearest cm^3). Work out the upper bound of its density, to 2 decimal places.
5
Quadratic Inequalities3 marks
Solve x^2 - 5x + 6 < 0.

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