Daily Practice - Higher Plus
Grades 8-9 - exam-stretch algebra, geometry and reasoning.
11th August 2001
- 1Histograms3 marks
A histogram has two bars: one 5 units wide with frequency density 1.2, one 20 units wide with density 0.8. How many values in total?
- 2Bounds3 marks
A car covers 470 m (to the nearest 10 m) in 3 s (to the nearest second). Work out the lower bound of its speed, to 2 decimal places.
- 3Factorising Harder Quadratics3 marks
Solve 5x^2 + 8x + 3 = 0.
- 4Velocity Time Graphs2 marks
On a velocity-time graph a car speeds up in a straight line from 4 m/s to 14 m/s over 4 seconds. Work out the acceleration.
- 53d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 14 cm by 11 cm by 13 cm. Work out the length of the longest diagonal inside it, to 1 decimal place.
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