Daily Practice - Higher Plus
20th August 1991
- 13d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 11 cm by 11 cm by 7 cm tall. Work out the angle between its longest internal diagonal and the base, to 1 decimal place.
- 2Conditional Probability3 marks
A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Given the first was red, what is the probability the second is blue?
- 3Histograms3 marks
A histogram has two bars: one 20 units wide with frequency density 0.4, one 25 units wide with density 3.5. How many values in total?
- 4Surds3 marks
Expand and simplify (2 + sqrt(2))(2 - sqrt(2)).
- 5Algebraic Fractions3 marks
Write 4/(x - 1) + 5/(x - 4) as a single fraction.
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