Daily Practice · Higher Plus

Daily Practice - Higher Plus

7th December 1993

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

1
3d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 9 cm by 13 cm by 6 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 8 red and 4 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 10 units wide with density 1.4. How many values in total?
4
Surds3 marks
Expand and simplify (8 + sqrt(3))(8 - sqrt(3)).
5
Iteration3 marks
Use the iteration x(n+1) = cube root of (12x(n) + 9) with x(0) = 5. Work out x(1) to 3 decimal places.

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