THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

NATIONAL EXAMINATIONSCOUNCIL OF TANZANIA

CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION

041 BASIC MATHEMATICS

(For Both School and Private Candidates)
Time: 3 Hours Year: 2023

Instructions
1 This paper consists of sections A and B with a total of fourteen (14) questions.
2. Answer all questions.
3. Each question in section A carries six (06) marks while each question in
section B carries ten
(10) marks.

4. Allnecessary working and answers for each question must be shown clearly.
5. NECTA mathematical tables and non-programmable calculator may be used.
6. All communication devices and any unauthorised materials are not allowed
room.
in the examination
7. Write your Examination Number on every page of your answer
booklet(s).

100017

ll
301041

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 SECTION A (60Marks)
section.
Answer all questions in this
ascending order of magnitude:
1. (a) () Arrange the given numbers in
13
0.6. and 20% of
4

(ii) Evaluate the expression 13-2x3+14 +(2+5).

L.C.M of these numbers.
(b) By listing the multiples of 2, 3 and 5, find the
(s2)= 25
(a) Find the values of x and y that satisfy the equations 32+3' =3*

(b) Solve the equation 4+3log, x=log, 24.

(a) Given the universal set ={15,30,45,60,75} and the subsets A=15,45} and B ={30.
60}. find (AUB)' and hence represent this information by using a Venn diagram.

In a class of 50 students, 35 are boys and 15 are girls. If a student is chosen at

(b) ()
random, what is the probability that he is a boy?
Jonika has two shirts, blue and red. He als0 has three trousers, black, green and
(ii)
vellow. By using a tree diagram, find the probability that he will put on a blue
shirt and black trouser.

(a) Show that the triangle whose

vertices are A(4,-4), B(-6,-2) and C(2,6) is an
4
isosceles.

3 km to village R. If vilage O is
(b) A man walks 4 km from village P to village Q and then
of village P; and village R is N30 Wof village Q.
N60°E labeled diagram.
() represent this information on a well
the resultant displacement of the man from P to R.
(ii) find

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 5. (a) In the following figure. RPQ =PØR and SPQ =SØP. Find the size of the angle RPS

72°/

120

(b) A rectangular field is 72 mlong and 40 m wide. If a triangular field with a base of 60 m
has an area which is equal to the area of the rectangular field, find the height of the
triangular field.
6. (a) Annawalks 24 km every day. Compute in metres,the distance she walks in2 days.
(b) A dealer sells mattresses whose buying price is directly proportional to the selling price.
If the selling price and the buying price of one mattress are Tshs 20,000 and Tshs
18,000, respectively, find;
(i) the equation that relates the buying price and the selling price.
(ii) the new selling price when the buying price is increased by 15%.
7 (a) Ally and Jane shared 64,000 shillings in the ratio 3:5 respectively. Find the
difference
between their shares.
(b) Mr. Mrisho recorded the transactions of his business in February, 2022 in a cash
account as follows:

CASH ACCOUNT
DR
Date Particular Folio Amount CR
Date Particular
February I Capital 1,500,000 February 2 Purchases Folio Amount
February 2 Sales 1200,000 1.000,000
February 3 Sales February6 Transport 200.000
800,000 February 27 Purchases
February 28 1.400,000
Balance c/d 900,000
March |
3.500,000
Balance b/d 900.000 3,500.000
Using the given cash account, extract the trial
balance as at 28th
February. 2022.

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 term is n(2n-1). Brieily
sequence whose general
8. (a) Write down the first four terms of a progression.
arithmetic progression or a geometric
Cxplainvhether it is an arithmetic progression is 517. If its first term is
The sumn of the first eleven terms of
an
(b)
terms.
7, find the sumof the fourth and ninth
metres long. If the length of its diagonal is 50 metres
40
(a) A rectangular plot of land is
howwide is the plot?
value of tan A
that A is an acute angle for which 13cos A-5 =0, find the
(b) Given
without using mathematical table.
AB8 m, AC=5mand BAC= 60
(ii) A triangular pond ABC is such that
Determine the length of BC.
1 where a,b and care
10. (a) If x=-3 and x=
3
are solutions of the equation ax +bx+c=0
integers, determine the values of a, b and c.
(b) Solve the inequality 10-xs3(+10),where xis an integer. Hence, state the first four
values of x that satisfy the given inequality.

SECTION B (40 Marks)

Answer all questions in this section.
11. The given frequency distribution table shows the scores of 30students in a Mathematics test.

Class interval 40 - 49 50 59 60 - 69 70-79 80 -89 90 99

4 7
Frequency 5 3

(a) Calculate the median score, correct to two decimal places.

(b) Find the mean score, correct to four significant figures.
(c) Draw a histogram and use it to estimate the mode.

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 ABCDEFGH whose sides are 8 cm each.
12. (a) The following figure represents a square box

H E

(i) Determine the total surface area of the boX.

giving
segment AF and the plane ABCD.
(ii) Calculate the angle between the line
degree.
your answer to the nearest
km/h leaves Julius Nyerere International Airport
(b) Boeing 787 Dream Liner flying at 500 Ababa in Ethiopia
S, 45° E) at 8:00 am. When willit arrive at Addis
in Tanzania (7
2rR
substitution =112 ).
(9 N, 45° E) ?(Use the 360°

13. (a) Find the values of x and y given that |3 y

was
marks were awarded for each correct answer, 1 mark
In a multiple choice test, 2 Anna answered 49
(b)
from each incorrect answer and 0for not writing an answer.
deducted
out of 100.
questions and scored 62 marks letting x be the number of correct
information in a matrix form;
(i) Represent this incorrect answers.
answers and y be the number of
Using the inverse matrix method, determine the number of questions that Anna
(ii)
answered correctly.

B(2, 5) and C(4, 1). If the triangle is rotated

(c) Atriangle has its vertices at the points A(1,3),
the origin;
through 180° anticlockwise about which are the images of
() find the coordinates of the points ¤, B'and C
A, B and C respectively.
on the same set of axes
i) draw the triangles ABC and ABC

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 -2 if 0<xs5
14. (a) Afunction is defined on the set of integers as f() ={ x+lif -6<x<
(i) Find the values of f(4) and f-5).

(ii) State the domain and range of f(x).

airplanes, A and B. 1YPe h
(b) The Air Tanzania Company wants to buy twO types of
dam of parking space while the
Tequires 6dam of parking space, type B requires 2 the company has 480 billion
available. Also
Ompany nas 60 dam of parking space A and type B are 20 billion shillings
Snlllings and the cost for buying airplanes of type
of airplanes the company
and 30 billion shillings respectively. Find the greatest number
can buy.

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