Daily Practice - Higher Plus
Grades 8-9 - exam-stretch algebra, geometry and reasoning.
6th December 2016
- 13d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 10 cm by 7 cm by 14 cm tall. Work out the angle between its longest internal diagonal and the base, to 1 decimal place.
- 2Conditional Probability3 marks
A bag holds 6 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 10 units wide with frequency density 1.2, one 10 units wide with density 0.6. How many values in total?
- 4Surds3 marks
Expand and simplify (6 + sqrt(10))(6 - sqrt(10)).
- 5The Nth Term of a Quadratic Sequence2 marks
A quadratic sequence starts -6, -3, 4, 15. Work out the second difference, and the coefficient of n^2.
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