Daily Practice - Higher Plus
Grades 8-9 - exam-stretch algebra, geometry and reasoning.
31st March 2018
- 13d Pythagoras and Trigonometry3 marks
A cuboid measures 13 cm by 5 cm by 9 cm tall. Work out the angle between its longest internal diagonal and the base, to 1 decimal place.
- 2Conditional Probability3 marks
A bag holds 4 red and 4 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 20 units wide with frequency density 1.2, one 25 units wide with density 3.5. How many values in total?
- 4Bounds3 marks
A car covers 460 m (to the nearest 10 m) in 2 s (to the nearest second). Work out the lower bound of its speed, to 2 decimal places.
- 5The Nth Term of a Quadratic Sequence3 marks
Work out the nth term of the quadratic sequence -3, 3, 15, 33, ...
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