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FRIENDS SCHOOL KAIMOSI BOYS

FORM THREE HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
DECEMBER 2024

MATHEMATICS

NOTE: ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS

FOR EXAMINER’S USE

SECTION I
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total

SECTION II
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Total

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 SECTION I (50 Marks)
Answer all the question in this section in the spaces provided
1. Without using mathematical table or a calculator, evaluate:

3 72 x 1536 (3mks)
43

2. Use reciprocal tables to evaluate:

10 + 4
0.625 1.5 (3mks)

3. Find the value of y in the equation:

243 x 32y = 81 (3mks)
729 x 3y 3(2y-1)

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4. Use logarithm tables to evaluate: (4mks)

849.6 x 2.41
3941

5. Find the least length of tape such that 95cm piece is left when it is cut into equal strips either
24cm long or 30ccm long. (3mks)

6. The size of an interior angle of a regular polygon is 3 ½ times that of its exterior angle.
Determine the sum of the interior angles of this polygon. (3mks)

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 7. During a certain period, the exchange rates were as follows:
1 sterling pound = Kshs 100.
1 sterling pound = 1.7 US dollar
1 US dollar = Kshs. 60.
A school management intended to import textbooks worth kshs. 500,000 from U.K. It changed the
money to sterling pounds. Later the management found out that the books were cheaper in U.S.A.
Hence it changed the sterling pounds to dollars. The management did not buy the books finally it
converted the money to Kenya Shillings. Calculate the amount of money the management ended up with.
(4mks)

8. Line P whose equation is 2y – 6 = 4x is perpendicular to another line Q. Find the equation of line
Q if it passes through point (-2, 7). (3mks)

9. The figure below is a parallelogram PQRS. If the area of the parallelogram is 48cm2, find the
length PQ. ( 2mks)

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10. Given that sin (3x – 50)o – Cos (x + 20)o = 0 and x is an acute angle, find the value of x. (2mks)

11. The figure below shows a right-angled triangle. Find the value of x. (3mks)

x+2 2x+1

2x-1

12. The triangle ABC has dimensions as shown in the figure below.
A

7cm
4cm

B C
9cm

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 Calculate to 4 s.f. the area of the triangle. (3mks)

13. Wingu café has 3 cooks and 4 waiters. The sum of their weekly wages is Kshs. 33,600. When
one of the cooks resigns and one more waiter is employed, the sum of their weekly wages is
Kshs. 32,900. Given that their salaries remained the same, calculate the weekly wages of the
waiter. (3mks)

14. Solve the inequality below and represent the solution on a number line. (2mks)
x < 2x + 7 ≤ - 1/3x + 14

15. The arc ABC of a circle centre O and radius 5cm is one-third of the circumference of the circle.
Find the angle subtended by the arc at the centre. Take 𝜋 = 3.142 (3mks)

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16. a) Using a ruler and a compass only, construct triangle PQR in which QR = 8cm, angle PQR =
30o and angle PRQ = 45o. (2mks)

b) Drop a perpendicular from P to meet QR at S. Measure PS. (2mks)

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 SECTION II (80 Marks)
Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided
17. The diagram below represents a right pyramid on a square base ABCD. AB = 12cm and VC =
17cm.

a) Find the length of the perpendicular V to BC to one decimal place. (2mks)

b) The area of triangle VBC. (2mks)

c) The total surface area of the pyramid. (4mks)

d) Find the radius of a sphere whose surface area is 616 cm 2. Use 𝜋 = 22/7 (2mks)

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18. Members of the scouting movement in a school decided to raise K£100 towards a charity. Five of
them were unable to contribute. Each of the rest had therefore to pay K£ 1 more in order to raise
the same amount.
a) If the original number of members was x, write down
i) An expression of how much each was originally to contribute. (1mk)

ii) Two distinct expressions of how much each contributed after the five pulled out. (2mks)

iii) Calculate the value of x. (4mks)

b) Solve the equation

y+x - 1__
24 y–2 (3mks)

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19. Two towns A and B are 80km apart. John started cycling from town A to town B at 10.00 a.m. at
an average speed of 40km/h. Juma started his journey from B to A at 10.30 a.m. and travelled by
car at an average speed of 60km/h.
a) Calculate;
(i) How far john was from town A when Juma started his journey. (2mks)

(ii) The distance from town A when John and Juma met. (3mks)

(iii) The time of the day when the two meet. (2mks)

b) Jane started cycling from town A to town B at 10.21 a.m. She met Juma at the same time as John
did. Determine Jane’s average speed to the nearest km/h. (3mks)

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20. a) A conical solid has a radius of 8.4cm and a perpendicular height of 11.2cm. there is a larger
similar cone with a curved surface area of 2310 cm 2. Find the perpendicular height of the larger
cone. (5mks)

b) The two solids are made of metal of density 3.2g/cm3. A cylindrical hole of radius 3.5cm and
depth 7.5cm is drilled at the base of the larger cone. A hole is also drilled at the base of the smaller
cone such that the two solids are ultimately similar. Find the mass, to the nearest gram of the final
smaller cone. (5mks)

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 21. a)(i) Solve the inequalities x – 5 ≤ 3x - 8 < 2x - 3 (2mks)

(ii) Represent the solution on a number line. (1mk)

b(i) On the grid provided below, show the region satisfied by the following inequalities:
y > 1 y x ≤ 4 x + y ≤ 6 hence write down the integral solution set. (6mks)

(ii) Find the greatest values of x –y . (1 mk)

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22. The diagram below shows a frustrum which represents a bucket with an open end diameter of
36cm and a bottom diameter of 24cm. the bucket is 30cm deep and is used to fill an empty
cylindrical tank of diameter 14m and height 1.2m.

a) Calculate ;
i) The capacity of the bucket in litres. (6mks)

ii) The capacity of tank in litres. (6mks)

b) Determine the number of buckets that must be drawn in order to fill the tank. (2mks)

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 23. The figure below shows two intersecting circles with centres A and B respectively.

Given that AP = PB = 28cm and PQ = 20cm (Take π = 22/7)

To 1 d.p.;
a) Calculate the size of angle PAQ (2mks)

b) Find the area of sector APQ (2mks)

c) Calculate the area of the unshaded region. (3mks)

d) Find the area of the shaded region. (3mks)

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24. Rectangle PQRS has vertices P(2,1), Q(5,1), R(5,3) and S(2,2). P’Q’R’S’ is the image of PQRS
under a rotation of -90o about (0,0)
a) Draw PQRS and P’Q’R’S’ on the grid provided. (3mks)

b) P’’Q’’R’’S’’ is the image of P’Q’R’S’ under a reflection on the line y = -x

(i) Draw P’’Q’’R’’S’’ on the same grid.
(ii) State the coordinate of P’’Q’’R’’S’’ (1mk
c) Describe fully a single transformation that maps
i) P’Q’R’S’ onto PQRS (2mks)
ii) P’’Q’’R’’S’’ onto PQRS (1mk)

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