MINCKS GROUP OF SCHOOLS

FORM THREE
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

121/1- - Paper 1
MATHEMATICS
OCTOBER- 2024 TIME: 2½ hours

Name……………………………………….............. ADM. Number…………..…………

School ……………………………………………Class……………………………………
Candidate’s Signature……………………………….. Date…………………………….

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
a) Write your name, class and admission number in the spaces provided above.
b) Write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
c) This paper consists of two sections. Section I and Section II.
d) Answer all the questions in section I and any five questions in section II.
e) Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answer at each stage in the spaces provided
below each question.
f) Marks may be awarded for the correct working even if the answer is wrong.
g) Candidates should answer questions in English.
h) This paper consists of 13 printed pages.
i) Candidates must check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as indicated
and that no question(s) is/are missing.

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 GRAND TOTAL.

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Total

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 SECTION I (50 MARKS)
Answer all the questions in this Section

1. Without using a calculator, evaluate. (3mks)

(-16) – 36 – 4 (-17 + 5)
18 ÷ (-6) – 10 8

2. Security lights have been erected along both sides of streets in Nakuru town. The lights
are 50 metres apart along the right-hand side of the road and 80 metres apart on the left-
hand side. At one end of the road, two lights are directly opposite each other. Find the
total number of lights that will be erected when the poles are directly opposite each
other again at the end of the road. (3mks)

3. Use tables of reciprocals, squares and square roots to evaluate: (3mks)

2 + √0.421
(3.24)2

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4. Solve the equation: (3mks)
3k
1 x 34 2k – 1 = 1
4 17

5 Simplify the expression by reading it to a single fraction. (3mks)

2x – 3 – x – 2 – 1 – x
3 2 4

6. A polygon of n sides has half of the interior angles as 150o each and the rest 170o
each. Find the value of n. (2mks)

7. A m an walks directly from point A towards the foot of a tall building 240m away.
After covering 180m, he observes that the angle of elevation of the top of the building
is 45o. Determine the angle of elevation of the top of the building from point A.
(Give your answer correct to 1 d.p.). (3mks)

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8. Find the mass of a steel bar in kilograms if the bar is 1.5cm long, 10cm wide and
10mm thick given that the density of the steel bar is 7.7g/cm3. (3mks)

9. Given the column vectors a = (−32) , b = (−64 ) and c = (−10

5
) and that
p = 2a – ½ b + 2/5 c, express p as a column vector hence evaluate | p| correct to 2
decimal places. (4mks)

10. If Charity sells a sack of cabbages for shs.520, she makes a profit. If she sells the
same sack at shs.420, she makes a loss. If the profit is three times the loss, find how
much she paid for the sack of cabbages. (4mks)

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11. Find the integral values of X that satisfy the inequality. (3mks)
x + 8 > 4x – 6 ≥ 3 (4 – x)

12. In the figure below PQ is parallel to SR. PR and QS intersect at T. Given that SR =
12cm, PT = 6cm and TR = 4cm.

Calculate the length of PQ. (3mks)

13. A right-angled triangle is such that its base is Pcm and the other two sides are
(P+1)cm and (P + 2)cm respectively, calculate the length of the longest side of the
triangle. (4mks)

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14. The figure below shows a rectangle of dimensions 8cm by 3cm inside a semi-circle.
Given that O is the centre of the semi-circle and mid-point of AB, calculate the area of
the shaded region. (Use ℼ = 3.142). (3mks)

15. In a fundraising drive there was 500 people present, men and women. Each man
contributed shs.300 and each woman contributed shs.250. The funds drive raised a
total of shs.136,800. Find the number of men present during the drive. (3mks)

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16. The figure below is a prism. Calculate the surface area to 2 d.p. (3mks)

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 SECTION II (50 MARKS)
Answer any FIVE questions in this section

17. Peter and James decided to start a business. Peter contributed Kshs.400,000 and
James Kshs.640,000. The two men agreed that in any year 15% of the profit shall be
divided equally between them and 20% of the profit will be used to meet the cost of
the business and the rest to be shared in the ratio of their contributions. The profit
made after the first year was Kshs.432,000.
a) How much did they set aside towards the cost of running the business for the 2nd year.
(2mks)

b) How much did James receive at the end of the first year. (4mks)

c) Peter bought Samsung TV set with his share of the profit. If each TV set cost
Kshs.13680. How many sets did he buy. (4mks)

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18(a) A straight line L1 has its y-intercept at y = -2. The line meets the x-axis at point R. If
the x-intercept is 1, determine the equation of L1. (3mks)

(b) A second line L2 meets L1 at R at an angle of 90o. Find the equation of L2 in the
form ax + by = c where a, b and c are constants. (2mks)

(c) A third line L3 passes through (2, 5) and is parallel to L1. Find:
(i) The equation L3 in the form y = mx + c where m and c are constants. (2mks)

(ii) The co-ordinates of T, the point of intersection of L3 and L2. (3mks)

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19. Nairobi and Eldoret are 600km apart. At 9:20 a.m. a lorry left Eldoret for Nairobi at a
speed of 60km/h. At 10:00 a.m., a car left Eldoret for Nairobi at a speed of 120km/h.
After 20 minutes of travel, the car developed a mechanical problem which took
20minutes to repair. The car then continued with the journey at the same speed.
(a) Calculate the time the lorry arrived in Nairobi. (2mks)

(b) Find the time when car arrived Nairobi. (2mks)

(c) Find the time when the car overtook the lorry. (2mks)

(d) Find the distance from Nairobi at the overtaking point. (2mks)

(e) Calculate how far the lorry was from Nairobi when the car reached Nairobi. (2mks)

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20. Four towns R, T, K and Q are in such a way that T is 84km due North of R and K is
on a bearing of 295o from R at a distance of 60km. Q is on a bearing of 340o from K
at a distance of 30km. Using a scale of 1cm rep. 10km.
(a) Make a scale drawing showing the relative position of the four towns, (4mks)

(b) Find using the scale drawing:

(i) The distance of T from K. (2mks)

(ii) The bearing of T from K. (1mk)

(iii) The distance of Q from T. (2mks)

(iv) The compass bearing of T from Q. (1mk)

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21. The table below shows patients who attend a clinic in one week and were grouped by age as
shown in the table below:
Age 0 ≤ x < 5 5 ≤ x < 15 15 ≤ x < 25 25 ≤ x < 45 45 ≤ x < 75
(years)
No. of 14 41 59 70 15
patients

a) Estimate the mean age. (4mks)

b) Use the grid provided to draw a histogram representing the distribution (Use the scale 1cm to
represent 5 units on the x-axis and 1cm to represent 1 unit on y-axis. (3mks)

c(i) State the group in which median age lies. (1mk)

(ii) A vertical line drawn through the median age divides the total area of the histogram into two equal
parts. Using this information, estimate the median age. (2mks)

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22(a) Given that P = [ 3 4
7 12 ]
find P-1. (2mks)

(b) Doris, a business lady bought three blow dryers and four shaving machines at a cost
of shs.12,000. Had she bought seven blow dryers and twelve shaving machines she
would have spent sh.20,000 more.
(i) Taking x and y to be the prices of a blow dryer and a shaving machine respectively.
Form a matrix equation to represent this information. (2mks)

(ii) Use P-1 in (a) above to find the cost of each item. (4mks)

(iii) Doris discovered that from another shop the price of a blow dryer is 20% less while
the price of a shaving machine is 10% higher. Calculate how much she would have
saved if she bought the items from the other shop. (2mks)

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23. In the figure below O is the centre of the circle and PS is the diameter, QR is parallel
to PS, < PSQ = 25o and POT = 120o

Find the size of the following angles giving a reason in each case.
(i) PQS (2mks)

(ii) QRT (2mks)

(iii) PTQ (2mks)

(iv) PST (2mks)

(v) TUP (2mks)

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24. A triangle ABC has vertices at A(3, 2), B(2, 5) and C(4, 6)
(a) On the grid provided, draw triangle ABC. (1mk)

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(b) Draw triangle AꞌBꞌCꞌ the image of triangle ABC under a reflection on the line y = 0
and state its co-ordinates. (3mks)

(c) Draw AꞌꞌBꞌꞌCꞌꞌ the image of AꞌBꞌCꞌ under enlargement, scale factor -1 centre (0, 0) and state its co-
ordinates. (3mks)

(d) Draw triangle AꞌꞌꞌBꞌꞌꞌCꞌꞌꞌ the image of AꞌꞌBꞌꞌCꞌꞌ under a +90o about the origin and state its co-
ordinates. (3mks)

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