Daily Practice

Higher

23rd August 1973

5 questions · 13 marks · Grades 6-7 · 61 question types in this band

1
Repeated Percentage Change3 marks
A town's population is 9500 and grows by 8% each year. Work out the population after 2 years, to the nearest whole number.
2
Vectors3 marks
a is the column vector (2, -3) and b is (-2, 1). Work out 5a - 5b as a column vector.
3
Probability Trees3 marks
1 of 5 bulbs in a box are faulty. Two are taken with replacement. Work out the probability at least one is faulty.
4
Histograms2 marks
A histogram class is 4 units wide and contains 8 values. Work out the frequency density.
5
Surds2 marks
Write sqrt(72) in the form a sqrt(b), where b is as small as possible.

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