Daily Practice · Higher

July 1958 5-a-day

← Today's Higher sheet

July 1958

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 6-7

Printing for a group?

The batch download puts all 5 tiers' July 1958 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.

Every sheet in July 1958

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st July 1958x : y = 5 : 8. Write y in terms of x.
  2. 2nd July 1958Two similar solids have lengths in the ratio 1 : 2. The larger has a volume of 312 cm^3. Work out the volume of the smaller.
  3. 3rd July 195817 students study Spanish and 3 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  4. 4th July 1958A capture-recapture estimate is made of the fish population of a pond. State one assumption the method relies on.
  5. 5th July 1958Work out 100^(3/2).
  6. 6th July 1958Work out the equation of the line parallel to y = -2x - 4 that passes through (6, -2).
  7. 7th July 1958A price rises by 15% and then falls by 15%. Work out the overall percentage change, to 2 decimal places.
  8. 8th July 1958A right-angled triangle has a hypotenuse of 25 cm and one shorter side of 24 cm. Work out the other shorter side.
  9. 9th July 19582 of 6 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
  10. 10th July 1958A histogram class is 20 units wide and contains 30 values. Work out the frequency density.
  11. 11th July 1958Write sqrt(72) in the form a sqrt(b), where b is as small as possible.
  12. 12th July 1958A line has equation y = -3x + 5. Work out the gradient of any line perpendicular to it.
  13. 13th July 1958y is inversely proportional to x. When x = 8, y = 30. Work out y when x = 6.
  14. 14th July 1958ABCD is a cyclic quadrilateral. Angle ABC is 115°. Work out angle ADC.
  15. 15th July 195822 students study Spanish and 7 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  16. 16th July 1958Four classes in order have frequencies 9, 8, 7, 12. Write down the cumulative frequency at the end of the third class.
  17. 17th July 1958A meal deal has 3 mains, 9 sides and 3 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
  18. 18th July 1958For the curve y = -5/x, work out y when x = 5, and write down the equation of its vertical asymptote.
  19. 19th July 1958y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 144. Work out y when x = 3.
  20. 20th July 1958A, B and C are points on a circle with centre O. Angle AOC is 56°. Work out angle ABC, where B is on the major arc.
  21. 21st July 19581 of 5 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
  22. 22nd July 195830 voles are marked and released. Later 56 are caught, of which 8 are marked. Estimate the population.
  23. 23rd July 1958A mass is 70 kg, correct to the nearest whole number. Write down the upper bound.
  24. 24th July 1958Expand and simplify (x + 3)(x + 3)(x - 2).
  25. 25th July 1958y is directly proportional to x. When x = 4, y = 16. Work out y when x = 10.
  26. 26th July 1958A cone has base radius 5 cm and vertical height 12 cm. Work out its volume, leaving your answer in terms of pi.
  27. 27th July 195817 students study Spanish and 5 of those also study Art. One Spanish student is picked at random. Work out the probability they study Art.
  28. 28th July 1958A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 196 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
  29. 29th July 1958Write 6^-3 as a fraction.
  30. 30th July 1958Make x the subject of y = 4x^2 - 7.
  31. 31st July 1958A town's population is 34500 and grows by 5% each year. Work out the population after 3 years, to the nearest whole number.

The same month at another level