Daily Practice

Higher Plus

10th October 1987

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

1
3d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 11 cm by 11 cm by 5 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 4 red and 6 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 10-wide bar and a 30-wide bar have the same frequency density of 2. How many more values are in the wider class?
4
Bounds3 marks
A car covers 390 m (to the nearest 10 m) in 6 s (to the nearest second). Work out the lower bound of its speed, to 2 decimal places.
5
Quadratic Simultaneous Equations3 marks
Solve x^2 + y^2 = 289 and y = x + 7 simultaneously.

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