Daily Practice · Higher Plus

Daily Practice - Higher Plus

Grades 8-9 - exam-stretch algebra, geometry and reasoning.

13th April 2004

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

1
3d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 14 cm by 8 cm by 4 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 3 red and 5 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 10 units wide with frequency density 2, one 25 units wide with density 1.4. How many values in total?
4
Surds3 marks
Expand and simplify (7 + sqrt(3))(7 - sqrt(3)).
5
The Nth Term of a Quadratic Sequence3 marks
Work out the nth term of the quadratic sequence 12, 21, 34, 51, ...

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