Daily Practice

Higher Plus

31st August 1985

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

1
The Nth Term of a Quadratic Sequence3 marks
Work out the nth term of the quadratic sequence 2, 15, 36, 65, ...
2
Velocity Time Graphs2 marks
On a velocity-time graph a car speeds up in a straight line from 6 m/s to 21 m/s over 5 seconds. Work out the acceleration.
3
3d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 6 cm by 5 cm by 6 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 4 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 5 units wide with frequency density 0.4, one 5 units wide with density 3. How many values in total?

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