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Equations
1. Solve the simultaneous equation (3 mks)
2x  y  3
x 2  xy  4
2. A photograph is mounted on a frame that it leaves a uniform border at the bottom and at the top. At
each side a uniform border which is half the border at the bottom is left.
If the side of the square photograph is 5cm and area of frame is 75cm2.
(a) Write down an equation for the area of the frame (simplified) (2mks)
(b) What are the dimensions of the frame? (4mks)
(c) What is the percentage area of the frame that is not covered by the photograph? (4mks)
1 5
3. Solve the equation  7 (3mks)
4x 6x
4. Factorize completely: 75x2 – 27y2 (2mks)
x3 x2
5. Solve for x given that  4 (3mks)
5 2
6. Solve for x and y in. (4mks)
2 2 x 3 y  16
5 x 2 y  1

7. The attendance at a party consisted of 35 men, a number of women and some children.
The number of women was one and a half times that of the children present.
a) If there were a total of 65 participants, how many women attended the party?
(2mks)
b) During the party, each child took one bottle of soda, the men took two bottles
each while some women took two and others three. Given that five crates each
containing 24 bottles of soda were consumed, how many women took two bottles
of soda? (6mks)
c) Each crate of soda was bought for sh.432 plus a deposit of sh.10 per bottle incase
it broke. How much money did the party organizers pay at the soda depot?
(2mks)
8. Simplify the expression (3 marks)
p2 – 4m2
2m2 – 7mp + 3p2
9. During a certain ceremony goats and chicken were slaughtered. The number of heads (for both chicken
and goats) was 45. The total number of legs was 100. Determine the exact number of goats and chicken
slaughtered. (3 marks)
10. A tailor bought a number of suits at a cost of Sh. 57,600 from Ken-suit wholesalers. Had he bought the
same number of suits from Umoja wholesalers, it would have cost him Sh. 480 less per suit. This would
have enabled him to buy 4 extra suits for the same amount of money.
(a) Find the number of suits the tailor bought (4 marks)
(b) The tailor later sold each suit for Sh. 720 more than he had paid for it. Determine the percentage
profit he made? (4 marks)
11. Use factor method to evaluate the following expression leaving your answer as a product of prime
factors in power form.

13824  0.000125 3
1
(3mks)
12. Solve for x in the given equation. (3mks)
64x – 121 = 7 – 43x
1 2
x  4 xy  y 2
13. Given the 4x = 3y, evaluate 3 (4mks)
4x 2  y 2
14. Find the value of y in the equation
243  32 y
 81 (4mks)
729  3 y  2 ( 2 y 1)
15. Factorise completely the expression
45a2 – 20b2
and hence or otherwise find its value when a = 5 and b = 3 (3mks)
3 n 3  3  3 n
16. Simply (3mks)
4  3n2

17. Find the value of M in the following equation. (3 mks)

18. Rotich bough 4 pencils and 6 pens for kshs. 184 and Kamau bought 3 pencils and 8 pens of
the same type at kshs 222. Find the price of each item. (3 mks)
19. A 60m by80m parking lot is torn up to install a side walk of uniform width around its perimeter. The
new area of the parking lot is two thirds of the old area. How wide is the side walk? (4 mks)
20. Mukku bought 4 text books and 3 novels at total cost of sh. 4250. if he had bought 2 text
books more and one novel less, he would have spent sh. 250 less. On another occasion
makku bought 3 text books and 3 novel at the same prices, find how much he spent in the
second occasion. (4 marks)
21. A Kenyan businessman US$100 to a company in the United States of America. The Kenyan
can either pay through his account in Kenya or through his account in the United Kingdom.
Which method is cheaper and by how much? Give your answer in Kenya shillings given that;
1 US dollar = 76.84 Kenya shillings
1 Sterling Pound = 1.53 US dollars
1 Sterling pound = 115.70 Kenya shillings
22. Foreign exchange on 27/5/2010 was given as follows:.

Currency Buying (Kshs) Selling (Kshs)

A tourist came to Kenya from London with 6000 Euros which he converted to Kenya shillings
at a bank. While in Kenya he spent a total of Kshs.300,000 then converted the balance into sterling
pounds at the Same bank. Calculate the amount in sterling pounds he received.

23. A Kenyan football fan visited South Africa from Kenya. He changed his currency from
Kenya shillings to South African rand. The exchange rates in Kenya were as per the table below:-
Buying Selling
9.9399 10.0166
He has a total of shs.2, 8000,265 and must spend 13 days. During his stay, he spent 8900
Rands on food and accommodation, 97,000 Rands on a return air ticket and 53689
Rands on entertainment. On his return, he converted the remaining amount into Kshs.
How much did he receive to the nearest cents?

24. A French tourist changes 3000 Francs into Kenyan shillings at 1 Franc = Kshs.1.89.
He spends shs.4695, then exchanges the remaining shillings back into Francs at 1 Franc =1.95.
How many Francs does he receive?

25. Hamisi arrived in Nairobi from USA with 40 travelers cheques each with 75 US dollars. How
much does she receive in Kshs from the bank on a day when 1 US dollar was equivalent to Kshs
81.40 and the bank charges commission at the rate of Kshs.100 per travelers cheque

26. A Kenya bank buys and sells foreign currencies as shown below
Buying in Kshs. Selling in Kshs.
1 Hong Kong dollar 9.74 9.77
1 South African rand 12.03 12.11
A tourist arrived in Kenya with 105,000 Hong Kong dollars and changed the amount to
Kenya shillings. While in Kenya, she spent Shs.403,879 and changed the balance to South
African rand before leaving for South Africa. Calculate the amount, in South African rand
that she received

27. A Japanese tourist entered Kenya with Kshs.500,000 Japanese Yen which he converted
to Kenya currency. While in Kenya, he spend Kshs.16200 in all. He then converted all the
remaining money into Euros before leaving for Italy. If he carried out all his transactions
at the Stanbic bank using rates shown below, calculate to the nearest Euro, how much money
he left Kenya with. (Do not use mathematical tables for this question)

Selling (Kshs Buying Kshs

28. Do not use mathematical tables in this question. Equity bank buys and sells foreign currencies
as shown:-
Buying (Kshs.) Selling Kshs.
1 US dollar 77.43 78.10
I South African Rand 9.03 9.51

A tourist arrived in Kenya with 5,600 US dollars and changed the whole amount to Kenya
shillings while in Kenya he spend shs.201,367 and changed the balance to South African rand
 before leaving to S. Africa . Calculate the amount in S. African rand that she received

29. A tourist arriving from Britain had UK ₤ 9000. He converted the pounds to Kenyan shillings at a
commission of 5%. While in Kenya he spent ¾ of his money. He exchanged the remaining to US
dollars with no commission. Calculate to the nearest US dollars the amount using the exchange
rate below.
Currency Buying Kshs. Selling Kshs.
1 US Dollar 63.00 63.20
1 UK Dollar 125.30 125.95

30. A company was to import goods worth Kshs.100,000 from U.K and changed the money to
Sterling pounds. The company later realized that it was cheaper to import the same goods
from U.S.A and changed the sterling pounds to dollar. Unfortunately the transaction failed
and the money was converted to Kenya shillings. How much money did the company end-up
with, given that;
1 US dollar = Kshs.78
1 Sterling pound = Kshs.120
1 Sterling pound = 1.79 U.S dollar

31. A tourist arrives in Kenya from England with S.£ 50,000 and uses the money to buy Kenya
shillings. He quickly changes his mind and sells the Kenya shillings to get back his s£.
How much money in S.£ did he get? Use the table below
buying selling
1 Sterling pound 120.7131 120.9294
32. A Kenyan bank buys and sells foreign currencies at the exchange rates shown below:
Buying Selling
(Kshs.) (Kshs.)
1 Euro 147.86 148.00
1 US Dollar 74.22 74.50

An American arrived in Kenya with 20000 Euros. He converted all the Euros to Kenya
shillings at the bank. He spent Kshs.25100 200 while in Kenya and converted the remaining
Kenya shillings into US Dollars at the bank. Find the amount in dollars that he received

33. Simplify;
(a) 6a – 2b + 7a – 4b + 2

(b) 2x – 2 3x + 2
2x - 4x