PANGANI GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL

PRE- MOCK EXAM TERM 1 2025 FORM 4

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
121/1 MATHEMATICS 121/1 FORM 4
Time: 21/2 Hours

NAME………………………………..………………………….. INDEX NO ……………………...

CLASS ………………………………………….………CLASS NUMBER …………………..…..

CANDIDATE’S SIGNATURE ……………………DATE ……………….……………….……..…

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES

 Write your name and index number, school and sign in the spaces provided above
 This paper contains two sections; Section I and Section II.
 Answer all the questions in section I and only five questions from Section II
 All necessary workings and answers must be written on the question paper in the spaces
provided below each question.
 Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the spaces
below each question
 Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
 Non programmable silent electronic Calculators and KNEC Mathematical tables may be
used EXCEPT where stated otherwise.
FOR EXAMINERS’S USE ONLY
Section 1
Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total
Marks

Section 1I GRAND TOTAL

Question 17 18 19 20 21 22 13 24 Total
Marks

This paper consists of 15 printed pages. Candidates should check carefully to ascertain that all the
pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.

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SECTION 1 (50 MARKS)
Answer all questions in this section in the spaces provided
1. Evaluate without using mathematical tables or calculators; (3 marks)
1 2 8 5 11
�� + − +
2 3 9 6 18
9
0.� ×
11

2. The government of Kenya plans to construct roads in the following counties ; Kakamega county
770 km , Kajiado county 210 km and Nairobi county 455 km. The government does not have enough
money to fully construct these roads . Therefore the government decides to built roads of equal
length in each of the counties using available money. What is the maximum length of the road that
the government will construct in each county? (3 marks)

1 2 5
3. The interior angles of a hexagon are 3�0 , 1 2 �0 , 2 3 �0 , 2 6 �0, 1320 ��� 1080. Find the value of

the largest exterior angle in the hexagon. (3 marks)

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36�3 −4�2 �−9��2 +���
4. Simplify; . (3 marks)
4�2 −��

5. Find the area bounded by the curve y = 3x2 − 4x + 2 and the line x = 2, x = 5 and the x-axis
using trapezium rule with 7 ordinates. (4 marks)

0
6. Given that sin 3x − cos(5x − 30) = 0. Find the value tan � + 45 without using a calculator
or mathematical tables. (3 marks)

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7. Write three inequalities from the figure below. (3 marks)
y
5

R
1
-2 1 3 x- axis

8. Brian bought a laptop at Ksh 36 000 from David after being offered a discount of 10 % . David is
a salesman who normal gets a commission of 5% on each laptop sold. Assuming that no discount
was allowed and David sold 18 laptops. What was his total commission. (3 marks)

9. The landing place of horizontal jumps in athletic event is rectangular in shape measuring y m by
2x m has a perimeter of 50m. Calculate the maximum area of the landing place. (3 marks)

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10. A piece of land measuring 240m by 360 m by 196 m is fenced using babbed wires. Assuming
that the wire intersect directly at the corners and poles are vertical, find the angle made by the side
measuring 360 m and 240m. (3 marks)

11. The figure below shows a figure and a mirror line M.

M
(a) Reflect the figure on the mirror line. (2 marks)
(b) State the type of congruency between the object and the image. (1 mark)

3 163.87 × 0.9421
12. Use tables of logarithms to evaluate: (4 marks)
8.122 × ��� 720

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2 1
2 0
13. Solve for x : 11 3 � ÷ 1331 9 � = 3
+ 120. (3 marks)

14. The masses of students in a form 1 class were recorded randomly as follows;
Masses 42 43 45 53 58 60
Number of students 3 4 8 22 13 5

Using the data above

(i) State the mode. (1 marks)

(ii) Calculate the mean mass of the students. (2 marks)

15. A rectangular pillar of the house is 3m tall, given that length , breadth and height of the pillar
on the plan is 2 cm by 3 cm and 6 cm respectively. Find the volume of the pillar of the house.
(3 marks)

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16. Draw an accurate net of the figure below given that : (3 marks)
A 4 cm B

3 cm D C

E 6 cm F

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Section 11 (50 marks)
Answer only five questions in this section
17. (a) Students tea urns in most school are cylindrical in shape with a diametr of 0.7 m and length
5 m with 4 small taps of radius 3.5 cm for fetching tea. If the tea passes through the taps at the
rate of 50 cm /s . find the time the tank will take to be empty starting with a full tank of tea.
(4 marks)

(b) Students use CK-cups which are in the shape of a frustum of cone of diameters 7 cm and 3.5 cm
and height of 9 cm. Find the volume of one cup. (3 marks)

(c) How many tea urns are needed to serve 3 432 students, if every student takes only 3 cups of tea.
(3 marks)

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−6 4
18. The position vectors of A and B are OA = and OB = respectively. A point M is on AB
−6 2
such that AM = MB and point N is on OA such that ON : NA = 2:1. Find ;
(a) (i) AB (2 marks)

(ii) NM (3 marks)

(iii) Magnitude of NM correct to 2 decimal places. (2 marks)

(b) If point A undergoes a translation T to get A’ (-2, -3). find the coordinates of R if R’(1, -1)
under the same translation. (3 marks)

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19. A trapezium ABCD whose vertices are A(-3,2), B(3,-4) , C(3,0) and D (m, n). Determine ;
(a) (i) The equation of line AB. (2 marks)

(ii) The x and y intercepts of line AB. (2 marks)

(b) (i). Given that line AB and DC are parallel to each other. Find the equation of DC.
(2 marks)

(ii) Given that Line AD and DC are perpendicular to each other. Find the equation of
line AD . (2 marks)

(c) Find the coordinates of D. (2 marks)

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20. A car moving at an average speed of 72 km/h, accellerates uniformly to 90km/h in 5 seconds. It
then maintains this speed for 20 seconds and finally decellerates to rest in 5 seconds.
(a) (i) Calculate the disatnce covered by the car in metres. (3 marks)

(ii) Determine the decelleration of the car. (2 marks)

(b) The Express way and Mombasa road are parallel to each other from westlands to mlolongo
a distance of 60 km. A bus on Mombasa road and a car is on Express way are moving in the
same direction. If the bus is moving at a speed of x km/h and is 20km a head of the car which
is moving with a speed of (x+10) km/h. Find
(i) The time used by car to overtook the bus. (3 marks)

(ii) find the value of x if the car overtook the bus after covering 40km (2 marks)

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21. The number of schools in the 47 counties in Kenya were recorded as follows;
230 276 312 101 202 186 150 200 132 196 233 160 147
76 114 87 246 55 83 120 167 95 200 142 146 396
110 102 60 170 212 78 51 100 330 350 88 230 222
225 143 250 233 65 115 175 190
(a) Complete the frequency distribution table below for the data. (2 marks)
Number of schools 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 249 250 - 399
Number of counties

(b) On the grid provided draw a histogram to represent the data. (4 marks)

(c) Use the histogram to estimate the:

(i) Median. (2 marks)

(ii) Number of counties with more than 212 schools. (2 marks)

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22. On the diagram below using a pair of compasses and a ruler only.

A B

(a) Locate a point C on BD such that BC:CD = 2:1. (2 marks)

(b) Construct a parallelogram ABCE . (2 marks)

(c) Construct a trapezium ABDF given that angle BAF = 900. (3 marks)

(d) Find the area of the parallelogram that is outside the trapezium. (3 marks)

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x −1
23. (a) Given that matrix M = is a singular matrix, find the values of x. (3 marks)
11x − 33 x − 3

b) A student bought 16 exercise books and 10 pens at a total cost of Ksh. 1 018. If she had
bought 12 exercise books and 8 pens, she would have spent Ksh 242 less.
(i) Form a matrix equation to represent the information above. (2 marks)

(ii) Using matrix method, determine the price of each item. (4 marks)

(c) Find the total cost of 4 books and 5 pens by using matrices of orders 1 x 2 and 2 x 1
respectively. (2 marks)

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24. Given that the curve y = x3 – 3x2 find:
(a) the x- intercept of the curve. (2 marks)

(b) The coordinate of the stationary points ofthe curve. (4 marks)

(c) The nature of the turning points. (2 marks)

(d) Sketch the curve y = x3 – 3x2 (2 marks)

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