Maths Challange
Maths Challange
0.95 < 0.095 0.075 > 0.75 3.85 < 3.75 1.25 > 0.125
8² - 8 / 4 + 3?
5. A tailor had 24¾ metres of a clothing material. The tailor sold ⅓ of the
material and used 1¼ metres to make a shirt. How many metres of the clothing
material remained?
7. What is the next number in the pattern 45, 51, 57, 59, 65, 71, _________?
8. Karanja, Wanjala and Amina weighed themselves. Karanja weighed 46.8 kg.
Wanjala was 0.5 kg heavier than Karanja while Amina was 1.3 kg lighter than
Wanjala. What was their total mass altogether?
11. The table shows the number of people who attended a trade fair in a
certain year.
Each adult paid sh 200 and each child paid sh 150. How much more money was
paid
13. Rose used 99 poles to fence round a circular garden. The distance between
one pole to the next pole was 2 metres. What was the diameter of the garden?
(Take π = 22/7)
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. The base of the triangle is 12m. What is the length of
15. The figured PQRS is a rectangle in which line PQ= 16cm and line QR=10cm.
X and Y are points on the rectangle. The line PX = line YR= 4cm
. The pipe holds 4m3 of water. What is the legnth in metres, of the pipe?
17. A tank had 2125 litres of water. The water was poured into a container
which has a square base of side 250cm. What was the height of the water in
the container?
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18. A school has enough food to feed 800 learners for 20 days. If 200 more
learners were admitted to the school, how many days would the same food be
able to feed all the learners?
19. A lorry weighs 7200 kg when empty. It weighed 12.6 tonnes when loaded
with some 90 kg bags of maize. How many bags of maize were loaded on the
lorry?
20. In the triangle shown, construct a perpendicular line from point P to meet
line RQ at point W.Measure the line RW. What is the length of line RW?
21. The three angles of a triangle are x°, (x-4)° and (3x-1)°. What is the size of
the smallest angle in the triangle?
22. John walked a distance of 9 km from home to the market. He then walked
back home. The whole journey took a total of 3 hours.
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23. Two sisters shared sh 3 600 in the ratio 3:5.
What was the difference in the amount of money received by the sisters?
25. A tourist travelled from Mombasa to Nairobi by bus. The bus left Mombasa
at 1.45 p.m and took 9 ½ hours to arrive in Nairobi. What time in 24 hour clock
system, did the bus arrive in Nairobi?
26. A cylindrical tin has a diameter of 14 cm and a height of 30 cm. The curved
surface of the tin is completely covered by a label. What is the area of the tin
covered by the label?
(Take π = =22)
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27. The average mass of 40 pupils in a class was 41.8 kg. When the mass of
the teacher was added,the average mass became 42.7 kg. What was the mass
of the teacher?
(Take π = 22/7)
(Take π = 22/7)
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30. Mercy has 5 bags of maize and Peter has 3 bags of maize. The mass of 1
bag of maize is represented by (x + 10) kg. Which one of the following
expressions will show the total mass of maize that they have?
x² + y²
x - y
33. Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, construct an equlateral triangle
XYZ of side 7cm.Construct a circle passing through points X, Y and Z. What is
the measure of the diameter of the
circle?
35. Mark bought a piece of land for sh 1 500 000. After some years, he sub-
divided the land into 8 equal plots. He sold each plot at sh 350 000. What was
the percentage profit made from the sale of all the plots?
36. The table shows bus fare for adult passengers in shillings between different
towns.
Town K
Town K
300 Town L
Amina and her two children travelled by bus from town K to P via N. The bus
fare for children was
half that of adults. How much money did Amina and her children spend as fare
for the whole journey altogether
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37. Nicholas paid sh 4000 for a carpet after getting a discount of 20%. What
would have been the percentage discount had he bought the carpet for sh 3
800?
He paid for all the items using a sh 1 000 note. How much more money should
Patel give
39. The marked price of a radio was sh3 200. The hire purchase price was
115% of the marked price.
Mutai bought the radio on hire purchase terms. He paid a deposit of sh 1680
and 4 equal monthly instalments. How much money was each monthly
instalment?
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40. A road measuring 1.5 km is represented on a map by a line measuring 7.5
cm. What is the scale of the map?
42. Atieno deposited sh 4 800 in a bank. The bank paid simple interest at the
rate of 12% per annum.How much money did she have in the bank at the end
of nine months?
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