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5. Oct. 2023 - 1 hour 20 minutes

- INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES (Please read these instructions carefully)

1. You have been given this question paper and a separate answer sheet. The question paper
contains 30 questions. Answer ALL the questions.
2. Do any necessary rough work in this question paper.
3. When you have chosen your answer, mark it on the ANSWER SHEET, not in this question paper.

HOW TO USE THE ANSWER SHEET

4. Use an ordinary pencil.
5. Confirm that the answer sheet that you have been provided with has the following:
YOUR ASSESSMENT NUMBER
YOUR NAME
NAME OF YOUR SCHOOL
NAME OF SUBJECT
6. Do not make any marks outside the boxes.
7. Keep the answer sheet as clean as possible and do not fold it.
8. For each of the questions 1 - 30, four choices are given. The choices are lettered A, B, C and D.
In each case, only ONE of the four choices is correct. Choose the correct answer from the choices.
9. On the answer sheet, show the correct answer by drawing a dark line inside the box in which the letter
you have chosen is written.
Example:
In the Question Paper
11. Which one of the following decimals are arranged from the smallest to the largest?
A. 0.25, 0.5, 0.3, 0.75
B. 0.75, 0.5, 0.3, 0.25
C. 0.25, 0.3, 0.5, 0.75
D 0.3, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75

The correct answer is C.

On the Answer Sheet:
In the set of boxes numbered 11, draw a dark llne inside the box with the letter C printed in it
as indicated below.
11 [A) [B] f€J [D)
10. Your dark line MUST be within the box.
11. For each question, ONLY ONE box is to be marked in each set of four boxes.
This question paper consists of 12 printed pages

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1. Lorries delivered 84072 bags of maize to a
refugee camp. What is the number of bags of
maize in words?

A. Eighty thousand four hundred and

seventy two
B. Eighty four thousand seven hundred
and two
C. Eighty four thousand and seventy
two
D. Eighty four thousand seven hundred
and twenty

2. In a hospital, 436587 children were vaccinated

against polio in a certain year. What is the
total value of digit 6 in the number?

A. 600
B. 6000
C. 60000
D. 600000

3. A tree nursery had 368593 seedlings.

Customers bought 27364 tree seedlings in a
day. How many tree seedlings remained?

A. 395957
B. 341239
C. 341229
D. 94953

4. A milk processing factory produced 19468

packets of milk . How many packets of milk to
the nearest thousands were produced?

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A. 20000
B. 19500 l!I .
C. 19470
D. 19000 'I")

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5. What is the next number in the pattern?

8, 24, 72,216,

A. 232
B. 264
C. 360
D. 648

6. Work out

24 -:-3+9 x6-4

A. 8
B. 26
C. 58
D. 98

7. Musa spent � of his salary on food. He also

spent l of the salary on rent. What is the
total fraction of the salary that Musa spent on
food and rent?

A. 13
20

B.
20
C.

D.
20

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8. What is the value of 9 � -11 ?

A. 11_l
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B. gl
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C. 31-
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D. s-12 'I')
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9. Wangeci made a necklace using red and green
beads. The red beads used were 25% while
the rest were green. Which of the following
decimals represent the green beads?

A. 7.5
B. 0.75
C. 0.075
D. 0.0075

10. A tailor bought a fabric material. He used

0.263 of the fabric to make a pair of shorts,
0.287 to make a shirt and 0.45 to make a
dress. How much of the fabric was used to
make both the dress and the shirt?

A. 0.332
B. 0.637
C. 0.713
D. 0.737

11. The height of water in a dam increased by

5 cm after it rained. What is the increase in the
height of water in millimetres?
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A. 50
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B. 500
C. 5000
D. 50000

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12. A teacher drew the folowing sh ape on the board

10cm 10cm

8cm

What is the perimeter of the shape?

A. 43cm
B. 48cm
C. 50cm
D. 58cm

13. A ribbon is 31 cm 6mm long. Rehema cut

5cm 3mm of the ribbon to make a flower.
What length of the ribbon remained?

A. 26cm 3mm
B. 34cm 3mm
C. 36cm 9mm �}'_&!
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D. 36cm 3mm

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14. A wall of a rabbit hutch is in the shape of a
rectangle and a triangle as shown.

74cm
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65 an
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What is the area of the wall?

A. 6370 cm2
B. 5590 cm2
C. 4810 cm2
D. 3185 cm2

15. Kimeto drinks 3. 7 litres of water everyday.

How many millilitres of water does he drink?

A. 37
B. 370
C. 3700
D. 37000

16. A road construction company mixed sand and

small stones. The mass of sand was 18 tonnes
481 kilograms. The mass of small stones was
12 tonnes 394 kilograms. What is the total fi
mass of the mixture?

A. 30 tonnes 875 kilograms

B. 30 tonnes• 775 kilograms
C. 20 tonnes 875 kilograms
D. 6 tonnes 87 kilograms

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17. A tea processing factory distributed fertilizer
to farmers using 4 lorries. Each lorry carried
24 tonnes 235 kilograms of fertilizer. W hat
was the total mass of the fertilizer distributed?

A. 96 tonnes 940 kilograms

B. 96 tonnes 920 kilograms
C. 96 tonnes 840 kilograms
D. 86 tonnes 940 kilograms

18. A flower company exported 4850000

kilograms of fresh flowers. How many tonnes
e of fresh flowers did the company export?

A. 485000
B. 48500
C. 4850
D. 485

19. Wambua represented his school in a music

festival. He began his performance in the
afternoon at the time shown on the clock face.

At what time did Wambua begin his

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A. 2.07 p.rn.
B. 2.35 am.
C. 2.35 p.m.
D. 3.35 p.m.

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20. The table shows a travel timetable for a train
from Manga station to Pate through Nanga

Station Arrival time Departure time

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Manga 6.15 am. '\I

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Nanga 8.30 am. 8.40 a.m.
Pate 11.54 a.m. "?
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A tourist travelled from Manga station to Pate
using the train. How long did the journey
take?
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A. 5 hours 39 minutes
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B. 3 hours 24 minutes '\I
C. 3 hours 14 minutes
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D. 2 hours 15 minutes
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21. Ndemo assists his father to sell clothes in their
shop. He sold a dress for sh 1 675. He made
a profit of sh 390 after selling the dress. What
was the buying price of the dress?

A. sh 2 065
B. sh l 385
C. sh l 325
D. sh 1 285

22. The area of a rectangular piece of paper is El

72 cm2. The length of the paper is 9 cm.
What is the width of the paper in
millimetres?

A. 0.8
B. 8
C. 80
D. 800

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23. Omondi drew accurately the triangle shown

on a piece of paper.

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Measure angle LMN using a protractor. What

is the size of angle LMN?

A. 100"
B. 80°
C. 60°
D. 40°

24. While picking litter in the school cornpoWld,

Munya picked the following 3-D object.

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How many edges does the object have?

A. 6
B. 8
C. 9
D. 12

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25. A carpenter joined five pieces of timber to
make a window frame as shown.

m p

Which of the following pieces of timber are

parallel?

A. r and p ")
B. m and n
C. n andq
D. r andq

26. Grade 6 learners harvested tomatoes from

their agriculture project. The bar graph shows
the amount of money received from Monday
to Friday after selling the tomatoes.
2500

"' 2000 -

.S 1500 -

·v 1000

500

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

How much money did the learners receive on

Wednesday?

A. sh 2 250
B. sh 2 000
C. sh 1 750
D. sh 1 500

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27. During a geometry lesson, learners were asked
to describe the faces of a cylinder, pyramid,
cube and cuboid. Which of the following ("')
descriptions was correct?

A. A cylinder has a square face

B. A pyramid has a triangular face
C. A cube has a rectangular face
D. A cuboid has a circular face

28. The table shows the number of patients

who were treated for various diseases in a
dispensary. Some information is missing in the �
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Disease Tally Number of patients

Malaria 12
Diabetes Ill/
Ttlberr:u/osis tHI I
HIVAJDS 8

How many patients were treated altogether?

A. 30
B. 20
C. 29
D. 10

29. Ngei had some oranges. He gave out 4 oranges

to his friend. He remained with more than 6
oranges. Use letter p to represent the number of
oranges that Ngei originally had Which of the
following inequalities correctly represents this
information?

A. p-4<6
B. 6 -p>4
C. p-4>6
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30. A self-help group shared some money among
50 women. Each woman in the group got
sh 8 500. Use letter x to represent the
amount of money shared. Which of the
following equations correctly represents this
information?

A. 50x = 8500

B.
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X
= 8500

,... C. x+50 = 8500

D. 50 = 8500

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