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SQA National 5 Mathematics Area 3 Applications overview quiz quiz

15questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. How is a bearing of fifty degrees clockwise from north written?

  2. An angle of elevation is measured:

  3. Find (41)+(25)\begin{pmatrix} 4 \\ 1 \end{pmatrix} + \begin{pmatrix} 2 \\ 5 \end{pmatrix}.

  4. Find the magnitude of the vector (68)\begin{pmatrix} 6 \\ 8 \end{pmatrix}.

  5. Which scalar multiple gives 2(3βˆ’1)2\begin{pmatrix} 3 \\ -1 \end{pmatrix}?

  6. Which multiplier increases an amount by 12%12\%?

  7. A price rises by 25%25\% to Β£100\pounds 100. What was the original price?

  8. Β£500\pounds 500 earns 2%2\% compound interest for 22 years. What is the total?

  9. Calculate 23Γ—34\tfrac{2}{3} \times \tfrac{3}{4}.

  10. Calculate 34Γ·12\tfrac{3}{4} \div \tfrac{1}{2}.

  11. For the data 4,6,7,9,12,13,154, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, what is the median?

  12. The interquartile range is calculated as:

  13. A data set has mean 1010 and the squared deviations sum to 3232 over 55 values. The standard deviation is:

  14. Points on a scattergraph rise from lower left to upper right. This shows:

  15. A line of best fit is y=2x+3y = 2x + 3. Estimate yy when x=4x = 4.