i. Write your name, Index Number and Admission number and Class in the spaces provided at the top of this page. ii. Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above. iii. This paper consists of two sections: Section I and Section II. iv. Answer all questions in Section I and only five questions from Section II v. Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answer at each stage in the spaces below each question. vi. Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong. vii. Non – programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC Mathematical tables may be used, except where stated otherwise. viii. This paper consists of 14 printed pages. ix. Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing. x. Candidates should answer the questions in English. ______________________________
2. (a) Determine whether 50cm, 150cm, 90cm are measurements of a triangle. (1 mark)
(b) Write down a compound inequality represented on the number line below. (1 mark)
3. The figure below is a trapezium (not drawn to scale) in which PS//QR, QR = 20 cm, RS = 8 cm, PS = 6.8 cm and QRS = 35°. Calculate the area of the trapezium to 2 d.p. 6.8 cm (2 marks)
4. A point P divides the line AB shown below internally in the ratio 2:3. By construction, find the position P and measure AP. (3 marks)
5. A bus started from rest and accelerated to a speed of 60km/h as it passed a billboard. A car moving in the same direction at a speed of 100km/h passed the billboard 45 minutes later. Calculate how far from the billboard the car caught up with the bus. (4 marks)
6. From a window 25 metres above a street, the angle of elevation of the top of a wall on the opposite side of the street is 15°. If the angle of depression of the base of the wall from the window is 35°, find the height of the wall, to the nearest whole number. (4 marks)
7. The figure shows triangle ABC inscribed in a circle where AC = 10cm, BC = 7cm and 22 AB =11cm Calculate, correct to 1 d.p., the area of the shaded region (𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝜋 = ) 7 (4 marks)
8. A saleslady is paid a monthly salary of Ksh 20,000 plus commission on goods sold above Ksh 50,000. In the month of March, she sold goods worth Ksh 90,000 at the end of that month. If her total earnings were Ksh 21,200, what percentage commission was she given? (3 marks)
9. The data below shows heights, in millimetres, of 48 seedlings in a nursery bed.
10. The marked price of a car in a dealer’s shop was Ksh 400,000. Lewis bought the car at 8% discount. The dealer still made a profit of 15%. Calculate the amount of money the dealer had paid for the car . (3 marks)
11. A quadrilateral ABCD has coordinates A(5, 5), B(4, 2), C(0, 0) and D(2, 4). Find, by construction, the coordinates of the image A`B`C`D` under enlargement scale factor –1 and centre (0, 0). (3 marks)
12. Solve the equation for x in: 52𝑥+1 + 52𝑥 − 750 = 0 (3 marks)
13. Simplify completely the expression: (3 marks) 8ab−6a+8b2−6b 8b−6
1 14. Mathematically, it is known that log an b = n log a b. Using this law, solve for x in the equation below, giving your answer correct to two decimal places. (3 marks) log 2 5𝑥 − log 4 2𝑥 = 3
𝑥 𝑦 15. Determine the perpendicular distance from point O(0,0) to the line 2 + 3 = 1 (3 marks)
16. American World Championship silver medalist Marvin Bracy beat Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala by a hundredth of a second in the 100m race in the icy Lucerne city, Switzerland. The race that started at 8:50 p.m. EAT took Omanyala 10.18 seconds. At what time of day did Bracy complete the race? (2 marks)
SECTION II (50 MARKS) Answer only five questions from this section in the spaces provided below each question
17. Four wooden pegs P1, P2, P3 and P4 are fixed on a level round such that P2 is 24m from P1 on a bearing of N65°E. P4 is 28m on a bearing of S63°E from P1. P3 is due east of P4 and on a bearing of S45°E from P2. Using a scale of 1cm to represent 4m; (a) Show the relative positions of the four pegs. (6 marks)
Using your scale drawing, determine:
(b) the compass bearing of (i) P1 from P3 (1 mark)
18. A trader purchases three 50kg bags of sugar on wholesale and re-packages it in 2kg, 1kg and ½kg packets to be sold in retail. The trader does the re-packaging in a ratio 6:3:1 respectively. He makes a profit of sh. 15 for every 2kg packet, sh. 10 for every 1kg packet and sh. 8 for every ½kg packet.
(a) Determine;
(i) The number of packets the trader made for each type of packet. (4 marks)
(ii) The selling price of each type of packet if the wholesale price of a 50kg bag of sugar is sh. 4000 (3 marks)
(b) Determine his percentage profit after the sale of all the packets of sugar. (3marks)
20. In a medical examination, 2 marks are awarded for every correct answer while 1 mark is deducted for every wrong answer. The examination has 60 questions. (a) Determine; (i) the maximum possible score of the examination (1 mark)
(ii) the minimum possible score of the examination (1 mark)
(b) Hanna scores 87 marks in the examination. Determine how many questions she scores correctly, if she attempted all the question. (3 marks)
(c) If Otieno has 48 correct and 12 wrong answers, calculate his percentage score in the examination? (3marks)
(d) The exam policy requires that half mark should be deducted for every question left unanswered. Mwanisa gets 30 answers correct and 16 wrong. The rest of the questions are left unanswered. How many marks does she get in the examination? (2 marks)
21. The fare charged by a certain luxury taxi in Nairobi consists of a fixed standing charge and an amount which depends on the number of minutes travelled, to the nearest half- minute. The table below shows the amount payable by a passenger for different number of minutes travelled. Number of minutes (n) 1.0 1.5 2.0 3.0 3.5 4.5 5.0
(a) On the grid below, draw the graph of Charge, C, against the number of minutes (n) travelled. (Take 2cm to represent 1 unit on the x-axis and 1cm to represent 100 units on the y-axis). (3 marks)
(b) From your graph, determine;
(i) The standing charge (2 marks)
(ii) The difference in amount charged for t = 2.5 minutes and t= 6.0 minutes travelled (2 marks)
(c) Calculate the fare paid by a passenger who travelled for 10 minutes. (3 marks)
22. Square tiles were laid in a rectangular floor measuring 12m by 21.6m. Calculate; (a) the side of a tile, in metres, that will give greatest area of the tile. (3 marks)
(b) the greatest area of the tile in m2. (2 marks)
(c) the number of tiles used. (2 marks)
(d) One tile costs Ksh 120 and the tiler charges Ksh 50 to lay one tile. Calculate the total expense on buying and laying the tiles. (3 marks)
23. A Modern Coast bus departs from Mombasa at 1545h Sunday, and travels to Kampala via Nairobi, Nakuru, Eldoret and Malaba towns. The bus arrives in Nairobi 7½ hours after leaving Mombasa. The bus departs from Nairobi at 0030h and arrives in Nakuru 3 hours later, where it stops for 25 minutes to pick passengers. From here, the bus does not stop until it arrives in Eldoret at 0920h and stops for 25 minutes to refuel. The bus then maintains an average speed of 80 km/h between Eldoret and Malaba, a distance of 128 km. In Malaba, the bus stops for 1 hour for customs clearance before taking another 4 hours 23 minutes to arrive in Kampala. (a) Determine the day and time, in 12-hour clock system, the bus arrives in: (i) Nairobi (2 marks)
(ii) Nakuru (2 marks)
(b) How long does the bus take from Nakuru to Eldoret? (2 marks)
(c) Determine the time, in 24-hour clock system, the bus:
