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NAME:………………………………………………….…….. ADM .…..…….… STREAM:…………....

DATE: ...........................................

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MATHEMATICS
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS

FORM THREE MATHEMATICS

OPENER EXAMINATION: TERM 2 2024

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
 Write your name and Admission number in the spaces provided at the top of this
page.
 This paper consists of two sections: Section A and Section B.
 Answer ALL questions in section A and ONLY FIVE questions from section B.
 All answers and workings must be written on the question paper in the spaces
provided below each question.
 Show all the steps in your calculation, giving your answer at each stage in the spaces
below each question.
 Non – Programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC mathematical tables may
be used, except where stated otherwise.

FOR EXAMINERS USE ONLY

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

SECTION B GRAND TOTAL

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 TOTAL

This paper consists of 14 printed pages. Candidates should check the

question paper to ascertain that all pages are printed as indicated and that no
pages are missing.
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SECTION A (50 MARKS) (Answer all questions in this section)

1. Evaluate: ❑ (3 marks)
❑

2. Use square and square root tables to evaluate: (4 marks)

3. Solve for the value of x: (3 marks)

4. A certain material of weight 12 N was used to make a sphere of radius 3.2 cm.
Calculate the density of the material used in kgm-3. (3 marks)

5. Given that and θ is an acute angle, calculate the value of

. (3 marks)
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6. A map has a scale of 1:25000 on this map; a square piece of land is represented by
an area of 2cm². Calculate the actual area, in hectares of the plot. (3 marks)

7. The size of an interior angle of a regular polygon is while exterior is .

Find the number of sides of the polygon. (3 marks)

8. Mr Onyango’s piece of land is in a form of triangle whose dimensions are 1200m,

1800m and 1500m respectively. Find the largest angle between two sides of this land.
(Give your answer to the nearest degree). (3 marks)

9. Simplify the expression ❑ (3 marks)

❑
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10. Eight years ago the age of a father was six times the age of his son and after eight
years from today the age of the father would be only twice the age of his son. Find
their present ages. (3 marks)

11. In the figure below PQR is the diameter of the circle centre O. Angle QPR = 20° and
angle QTR = 80°.

Determine the size of:

a. Reflex angle POS (2 marks)

b. Angle OSQ (1 mark)

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12. A Kenyan bank buys and sells foreign currencies at the exchange rates shown below.

Currency Buying (Ksh) Selling (Ksh)

1 Euro 147.56 148.00
1 US dollar 94.22 94.50
A tourist arrived in Kenya with 11,155 Euros. He converted all the Euros to Kenya
shillings at the bank. He spent Ksh. 1,130,200.50 while in Kenya and converted the
remaining Kenya shillings into US dollars at the bank. Find the amount in dollars that
he received correct to 2 decimal places. (4 marks)

13. Draw a net of the solid below. (3 marks)

14. Two men each working for 8 hours a day can cultivate an acre of land in 4 days. How
long would 6 men, each working 4 hours a day take to cultivate 4 acres? (3 marks)
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15. Given the column vectors.

express as a column vector and hence calculate its

magnitude to 3 significant figures. (3 marks)

16. Gloria, the school time keeper of Anestar Victory Girls High School, noted that the
school electric bell auto timer gains 2 seconds every one hour. On Monday of week
five the auto timer was correctly set at 8:00 am. What will be the reading of auto
timer on Friday of week six at 8:00 am? (3 marks)

SECTION B (50 MARKS) (Answer only five questions in this section.)

17. a) Complete the table below for the function for .

(2 marks)

-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4
15 7
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b) Draw a graph of . (3 marks)

c) Draw the line on the same axis hence find the values of for which
and are equal. (3 marks)

d) Write down the simplified quadratic equation whose roots are the solutions of the
simultaneous equation in (c) above. (2 marks)

18. Kisumu and Nakuru are two towns 320 kilometres apart. A bus left Kisumu at 8.00 am
travelling at 60km/h for Nakuru. After forty minutes, a saloon car left Kisumu
travelling in the same direction as the bus at a speed of 80km/h.
a. How far from Nakuru did the saloon car catch up with the bus? (4 marks)
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b. At what time did it catch up with the bus? (2 marks)

c. When the saloon caught up with the bus it got a break – down and had to be repaired
before proceeding to Nakuru at the same speed. If they both reached at Nakuru at the
same time, find how long it took to repair the saloon? (4 marks)

19. a) On the graph paper provided plot the point P (2,2), Q (2,5) and R (4,4). Join them
to form a triangle PQR. (1 mark)
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b) Reflect the triangle PQR in the line and label the image as . (2 marks)

c) Triangle PQR is given a translation by vector. to . Plot the triangle

. (3 marks)

d) Rotate triangle about the origin through -90°. State the coordinates of
. (3 marks)

e) Identify two pair of triangles that are direct congruence. (1 mark)

20. Use a ruler and a pair of compasses only for all construction in this question.
a) Construct quadrilateral PQRS such that PQ = 5cm, PS = 5cm and SR = 4.5cm, angle
SPQ = 75° and angle PSR = 90°. (4 marks)
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b) Drop a perpendicular from S to meet line PQ at N. Measure SN and calculate the area
of the triangle SPN. (3 marks)

c) Construct a circle passing through vertices P, Q and R of quadrilateral PQRS. Measure

the radius of the circle. (3 marks)

21. Three warships A, B and C are at sea such that ship B is 500km on a bearing 030°
from ship A. Ship C is 700km from ship B on a bearing of 120°. An enemy ship D is
sighted 800km due south of ship B.
a) Taking a scale of 1cm to represent 100km, locate the positions of ships A, B, C and D.
(4 marks)
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b) Find the bearing of:

Ship A from D. (1 mark)

Ship D from C. (1 mark)

c) Use scale drawing to determine the distance between

D and A. (1 mark)

C and D. (1 mark)

d) Measure angle DAC and angle BCD. (2 marks)

22. The figure below shows two circles of radii 10.5cm and 8.4cm and with centres A and
B respectively. The common chord PQ is 9cm.
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a) Calculate angle PAQ. (2 marks)

b) Calculate angle PBQ. (2 marks)

c) Calculate the area of the shaded part. (6 marks)

23. In a botanical experiment, the length of 60 leaves of a certain type of a tree were
measured correct to the nearest 0.1cm.
Length 3.0 - 3.4 3.5 - 3.9 4.0 - 4.4 4.5 - 4.9 5.0 - 5.4 5.5 - 5.9 6.0 - 6.4 6.5 - 6.9 7.0 - 7.4
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(cm)
No: of
1 4 9 14 12 10 6 3 1
leaves

a) State the:
I. modal frequency (1 mark)

II. modal class. (1 mark)

b) Calculate the:
I. mean length (4 marks)

II. median length. (4 marks)

24. The diagram below shows a bucket with top diameter 30cm and bottom diameter
20cm. The height of the bucket is 28cm.
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Find;
a) The height of the solid cone from which the bucket was made. (2 marks)

b) The volume of the bucket. (3 marks)

c) The surface area of the bucket. (5 marks)