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MATHEMATICS FORM THREE HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT

1 Onyango a government employee earns a basic salary of sh 60,000. He is housed by the employer and
pays a nominal rent of sh 3,000. Besides he receives a medical allowance of shs 5,000, commuter
allowance sh 4,000, hardship allowance sh 4,000. He gets a marriage relief of sh 15,567 per annum. He
has house bills amounting to shs 46,800 per annum. Using the table below anser the following
questions.

Kenyan pounds per annum Rate in shs per pound


1-5808 2
5809-10600 2.5
10601-14670 3
14671-19900 4
Above 19900 4.5

Find

(a) The taxable income


(b) Net tax
(c) Net salary after paying nhif of shs 600, nssf of shs 1700 and service charge of 2% of
the basic salary

2 Find the value of X in the following 22+log2X2+5log22=9

3 A rectangle has the following dimensions 5.6cm,7.78cm and 6.767cm. find the relative error in finding
its

(a) Perimeter
(b) Area.

4 the angle of elevation 0f the top of the flag post from a point A on a level ground is 13°. The angle of of
elevation of the top of the flag post from another point B nearer the flag post and 120m from A is 30°.B
is between A and the bottom of the flag post and the three points are collinear. Find

(a) The distance from point B to the top of the flag post
(b) The height of the flag post

5 Anestar boys bought 20bags of sugar and 10bags of rice at a total cost of shs 215000. The following
term they bought 25 bags of sugar and 15bags of rice at atotal cost of shs 282,500. Using X to represent
sugar and Y to represent rice

(a) Form two equations to represent the information


(b) Using matrix method find the cost of each item
6 The cost C of producing n items varies partly as n and partly as the inverse of n. to produce two items
it costs 135 shillings and to produce the three items it costs 140 shillings. Find

(a) The constants of proportionality and hence write the equqtion connecting C and n
(b) The cost of producing 10 items
(c) The number of items produced at a cost of 756 shillings

7 the product of the first three terms of geometric progression is 64, if the first term is a and the
common ratio is r

(a) Express r interms of a


(b) Given that the first sum of the first three terms is 14 find
I. The possible values of a and r hence write two possible sequences of each progression
up to 4th term
II. Find the product of the 50th terms of the two progressions

8. A bag contains 3 brown,9pink and 15 white cloth pegs. The pegs are identical except for the color.
FIND the probability of

I. A brown peg
II. A pink or a white peg
(c) Two pegs are picked at random, one at a time without replacement find the probability that
I. A brown peg and white peg are picked
II. Both pegs are of the same colour

9 The first, fifth and the seventh of an arithmetic progression (AP) correspond to the first three terms of
Geometric Progression(GP) the common difference of AP is ‘d’ and the common ratio of G.P was ‘r’

I. Write down two equations involving d and r


II. Find the values of d and r
III. Find the sum of first 10 terms of AP and the GP

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