Daily Practice - Higher Plus
21st November 1996
- 13d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 13 cm by 10 cm by 5 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 7 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 10 units wide with frequency density 2.5, one 5 units wide with density 0.6. How many values in total?
- 4Surds3 marks
Simplify sqrt(75) + sqrt(147), giving your answer in the form a sqrt(b).
- 5Algebraic Fractions3 marks
Simplify (x^2 - 7x + 6)/(x - 6).
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