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1. What is 400300085 written in words?

2. What is the total value of digit 6 in 5960124?

3. Which one of the following statements is correct?

0.95 < 0.095 0.075 > 0.75 3.85 < 3.75 1.25 > 0.125

4. What is the value of

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?

6. Work out 1/3 of (1/4 + 3/5) ÷ 1/4

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?

9. What is the value of


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4.8 x 18.3/6 x 0.6

10. What is 962.997 rounded off to 1 decimal place?

11. The table shows the number of people who attended a trade fair in a
certain year.

Male Adults Female Adults Children

793 1064 3059

Each adult paid sh 200 and each child paid sh 150. How much more money was
paid

by the children than adults?

12. What is the value of √2¹⁴⁄₂₅- (⅖)²?

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)

14. A right angled triangle has an area of 96m2

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. The base of the triangle is 12m. What is the length of

the longest side?

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

What is the area of the shaded part?

16. The area of one end of a cylindrical pipe is 8cm2

. 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.

What was the average speed for the whole journey?

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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?

24. A salesperson is paid a monthly salary of sh 9000. She is also paid a


commission of 10% for all the goods sold above sh 10000. In a certain month,
her total earnings were sh 10500. What was the total sales of goods in that
month?

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?

28. A cylindrical tank of radius 5 m and a height of 3.5 m is full of water. On a


certain day, the level of water dropped by 14 cm after being used for irrigation.
How many litres of water were used on that day?

(Take π = 22/7)

29. The figure shows a semicircle of radius 3.5 cm enclosed in a rectangle.

What is the area of the shaded part?

(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?

31. What is 1/4(32g+ 16f) + 1/3(15g + 9f) in the simplest form?

32. What is the value of

x² + y²

x - y

given that x =8 and y = 6

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?

34. The following are properties of a certain quadilateral:

i. Diagonals are equal.


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ii. Diagonals bisect each other at 90°

iii. Has two pairs of parallel lines

iv. Interior angles are equal.

What is the name of the quadilateral described by the properties?

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

500 300 Town M

600 300 200 Town N

700 400 300 200 Town P

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?

38. Patel bought the following items from a shop:

i. 3½ kg of maize flour @sh 90 per kg

ii. 2 loaves of bread for sh 110

iii. 5 packets of milk @sh 52

iv. 4 kg of rice @sh 69 per kg

He paid for all the items using a sh 1 000 note. How much more money should
Patel give

the shopkeeper so as to be given a balance of a sh 100 note?

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?

41. Oleluko earns a salary of sh 14 400 every month. He spends sh 7 200 on


food, sh 4 000 on house rent, sh 2 160 on airtime and saves the rest. A pie
chart was drawn to show how Oleluko spent his salary. What was the size of
the angle that represented the savings?

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?

43. What is the value of x in 3(x+8)=4(x+4)?

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