Daily Practice

Higher Plus

3rd January 1985

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

1
Rearranging Harder Formulae3 marks
Make x the subject of 7x + 5 = y(x + 5).
2
Velocity Time Graphs2 marks
On a velocity-time graph a car speeds up in a straight line from 4 m/s to 54 m/s over 20 seconds. Work out the acceleration.
3
3d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 4 cm by 6 cm by 12 cm tall. Work out the angle between its longest internal diagonal and the base, to 1 decimal place.
4
Conditional Probability3 marks
A bag holds 6 red and 6 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Given the first was red, what is the probability the second is blue?
5
Histograms3 marks
A histogram has two bars: one 20 units wide with frequency density 0.4, one 5 units wide with density 0.6. How many values in total?

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