KIBIRIGWI GIRLS SECONARY SCHOOL

FORM 1 DECEMBER HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENTS

MATHS

1. Use either <,> or = to relate the fractions below.

a) 2/4 and 3/6 (1mk)
b) 60/25 and 60/132 (1mk)
2. State the place values of the following digits in the number 201.789.
a) 1 (1mk)
b) 8 (1mk)
c) 7 (1mk)
3. Use factor-tree to decompose 256 into prime factors. (4mks)

4. Evaluate (3mks)

5. A car consumes 8 litres of petrol to cover 51 km. what average distance does it travel
for every distance? (4mks)
6. Use the symbols <,>, or = to compare the following integers.
a) -2 and -3 (1mk)
b) -3 and 4 (1mk)
c) 5 and -5 (1mk)
7. Find the L.C.M of 24, 15 and 16. (3mks)
8. From the following set of numbers which are:
a) Odd[20,18,6,7,8,21] (1mk)
b) Prime[14,2,10,9,3] (1mk)
9. Convert the following fractions into percentages:

a) (2mks)

b) (2mks)
10. What is the G.C.D of 60, 80 and 120? (3mks)
11. What fraction does letter K represent in the diagram below? (3mks)
K L L L K
L K K L W
L L L K L
L K L L L
12. Write in figures five billion five million five thousand and five. (2mks)
13. The sum of two consecutive even numbers is 74, find the two numbers. (4mks)
14. Write the following into improper fraction:

a) 1 (2mks)

b) 2 (2mks)

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15. Use a number line to perform the following operations.
a) (-10)-(-3) (1mk)
b) (-3)-(-4) (1mk)
c) (+1)-(-8) (1mk)

16. a) A two digit number is such that the ones digit is 1 times greater than the tens digit. If
the sum of the digits is 9, find the number. (6mks)
b)find the product of the positive difference and the maximum quotient between the
digits. (4mks)
17. Three bells ring at intervals of 6 minutes,5 minutes and 8 minutes. If they rang first at
9.15 a.m, find when they will ring for:
a) The second time (6mks)
b) The 5th time (4mks)

18. a) State the value of digit 7 after the operations below.

i) 3.45x20.54 (2mks)
ii) 34.5x20.54 (2mks)
iii) 345x205.4 (2mks)
iv) 3.45x205.4 (2mks)
b)state the value of second digit in the product 67.5x44.4. (2mks)
19. a)When a number is divided into by 8,9,and 6 the remainders are
7, 8 and 5 respectively. Find the number.
b)the L.C.M of three numbers is 24 and their G.C.D is 4.
If two of the numbers are 8 and , find the other number.
20. check whether the following numbers are divisible by 6:
a) 390 (2mks)
b) 441 (2mks)
c) 6732 (2mks)
d) 7544 (2mks)
e) 5310 (2mks)
21. Express the following numbers in powers of their prime factors:
a) 196 (2mks)
22. Three boys shared some money. The youngest got 1/12 of it, the next got 1/9 and the
eldest got the remainder.
a) What fraction of the money did the eldest receive?
b) If the eldest boy got shs. 330, what was the original sum of money?
23. Round off the following numbers to the nearest values indicated in the brackets,
a) 370 (1000) (2mks)
b) 2499 (10) (2mks)
c) 38679 (10000) (2mks)
d) 473678 (100) (2mks)
e) 501 (1000) (2mks)

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 1.33  0.51
1. Without using tables evaluate giving your answer in standard form.
0.19  0.0017
2. Four pieces of string are of length 140 cm, 238 cm, 168 cm, and 210 cm. Suzie wants to
cut them into pieces of equal length. What will be the greatest possible length of the
pieces if no piece of string is left over?
− 8  2 + 12  9 − 4  6
3. Evaluate: . (3 marks)
56  7  2
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4. The numerator and denominator of the fraction are each increased by 4.
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a) What is the new fraction? (2 marks)
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b) What fraction should be multiplied by to give an equivalent fraction to the new fraction
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obtained in (a)?
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5. Convert 0.1 0 7 into fraction. (4marks)
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6. It takes 5 hours to travel of a journey at a constant speed. How long will the whole
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journey take at the same speed? (2 marks)
7. A square of length 1.6 metres has an area equal to that of a rectangle whose length is
twice as long as its breadth. Find the length and breadth of the rectangle. (4marks)
8. Kibitz takes 2.5 minutes to run a distance of 1 km in a race. Express his speed in:
a) km/hr. (2 marks)
b) m/s (2 marks)
1 3 1  7 3  1 
9. Evaluate  +  − of 1  5 . (5 marks)
2  5 10  3 7  2 
1 1
10.a) If p = 2 q , find q : p . (3 marks
2 2
b) Find x if 1½: 3 = 3½: x (3 marks)
11. A company was reported to have a profit of sh. 93 678 563. Two daily newspapers gave
the figure, one to the nearest 1 000 000 and the other to the nearest 10 000. What was
the difference rounded off figures? (4marks)
12. a) A green grocer has 180 mangoes to sell. She has to arrange them in piles of 9, 10 or 12
mangoes. In which ways would she arrange the mangoes without any remaining?(2marks)
b) Eight people pay sh.48000 for a 6 day stay at a hotel. How much would ten people pay
for a 4 day stay? (4marks)
13. Use tables to evaluate
a) 9079 2 (3 marks)
b) 0.0618 (3 marks)
14. Solve the following equations:
a) 1
( ) 1( )
3 x + 4 − 2 2x − 4 = 2 (3 marks)
 y −3
b) 1- y
2 − 2 =0 `(3 marks)
 2 

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15. Mary cut her birthday cake in the ratio 8:7. She divided the smaller piece into two parts in
the ratio 5:9. If the smaller of these pieces had a mass of 240g, what was the mass of the whole
cake? (4 marks)
16. A number n is such that when it is divided by 27, 30 or 45, the remainder is 3. Find the
smallest possible value of n. (3marks)
17 Factorise by grouping
a) 3a + 6b + 2a + 4b (2marks)
b) 3ad + 12bd – 12bc – 3ac (3marks)

18. a) express each of the following as a single fraction:

x +1 x −1
i) − . (3marks)
3 2
3a 2 + ab a
ii) + (3marks)
6(a + b) 3
b) Simplify by use of common factors:
x 2 − 6 yx − 6 y + x
( )
6 y 2 − yx (x + 1)
(4marks)

19.a) Find the smallest number by which 48600 must be multiplied in order to make a perfect
square. (3 marks)
b) Maina is twice as old as his son Peter. 10 years ago Maina was three times as old as Peter.
Find their present ages? (5 marks)
20.a)The price of an article was raised by 20% and week later the new price was lowered by
20%. What was the new price if the original price was sh. 750? (4marks)
b) Peter started his trip on Monday at 8.30 a.m. If the trip took him a total of 54 hours and 13
minutes, when did he complete the trip? (5marks)