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September 2025 - Higher Plus 5-a-day

Every Higher Plus sheet published in September 2025, with answers. Grades 8-9 - exam-stretch algebra, geometry and reasoning.

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September 2025

30 sheets · 150 questions · Grades 8-9

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  1. 1st September 2025y is inversely proportional to x^2. When x = 2, y = 9. Work out y when x = 3.
  2. 2nd September 2025In a circle theorem proof, a step uses the fact that the angle in a semicircle is being proved. State the reason being quoted.
  3. 3rd September 2025The probability of winning a game is 3/4. A player expects 45 wins. How many games did they play?
  4. 4th September 2025On a histogram, a 5-wide bar and a 15-wide bar have the same frequency density of 1.5. How many more values are in the wider class?
  5. 5th September 2025Rationalise the denominator of 28/sqrt(7), giving your answer in its simplest form.
  6. 6th September 2025A quadratic sequence starts 6, 15, 26, 39. Work out the second difference, and the coefficient of n^2.
  7. 7th September 2025y is directly proportional to x^3. When x = 4, y = 128. Work out y when x = 2.
  8. 8th September 2025In a vector proof you find that vector PQ = 3a + 3b and vector RS = 15a + 15b. What does this show about PQ and RS?
  9. 9th September 2025A bag holds 3 red and n blue counters. The probability of taking a red is 1/2. Work out n.
  10. 10th September 2025A histogram has two bars: one 5 units wide with frequency density 1.2, one 25 units wide with density 1.4. How many values in total?
  11. 11th September 2025Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form a sqrt(b).
  12. 12th September 2025Solve x^2 + 13x + 42 < 0.
  13. 13th September 2025y is directly proportional to sqrt(x). When x = 36, y = 48. Work out y when x = 81.
  14. 14th September 2025A cuboid measures 13 cm by 14 cm by 12 cm. Work out the length of the longest diagonal inside it, to 1 decimal place.
  15. 15th September 2025A bag holds 3 red and 8 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Given the first was red, what is the probability the second is blue?
  16. 16th September 2025On a histogram, a 4-wide bar and a 12-wide bar have the same frequency density of 2. How many more values are in the wider class?
  17. 17th September 2025A rectangle is 15 cm by 12 cm, each correct to the nearest cm. Work out the upper bound of its area.
  18. 18th September 2025Write x^2 - 14x + 5 in the form (x + a)^2 + b.
  19. 19th September 2025A train slows steadily from 15 m/s to rest in 8 seconds. Work out its deceleration.
  20. 20th September 2025A cuboid measures 14 cm by 14 cm by 7 cm tall. Work out the angle between its longest internal diagonal and the base, to 1 decimal place.
  21. 21st September 2025A bag holds 7 red, 7 blue and 2 green counters. Two are taken without replacement. Given neither is green, what is the probability both are red?
  22. 22nd September 2025A histogram has two bars: one 5 units wide with frequency density 0.4, one 20 units wide with density 3. How many values in total?
  23. 23rd September 2025Expand and simplify (5 + sqrt(3))(5 - sqrt(3)).
  24. 24th September 2025Work out the coordinates of the turning point of y = x^2 + 8x + 10.
  25. 25th September 2025y is inversely proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 4. Work out y when x = 2.
  26. 26th September 2025The point (7, 24) lies on the circle x^2 + y^2 = 625. Work out the gradient of the tangent to the circle at that point.
  27. 27th September 2025A bag holds 11 counters, r of them red. Two are taken without replacement and P(both red) = 2/11. Work out r.
  28. 28th September 2025On a histogram, a 5-wide bar and a 15-wide bar have the same frequency density of 1.5. How many more values are in the wider class?
  29. 29th September 2025A block has mass 270 g (to the nearest 10 g) and volume 17 cm^3 (to the nearest cm^3). Work out the upper bound of its density, to 2 decimal places.
  30. 30th September 2025Simplify (x^2 + 3x - 18)/(x - 3).

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