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MATHEMATICS (121)
FORM ONE (1)
Time: 2 ½ Hour

For Examiners Use Only

Section I

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Section II
Grand
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SECTION Ⅰ (50 MARKS)

ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION

1. Work out leaving your answer in its simplest form. (3

marks)

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2. A tourist from United Kingdom arrived in Kenya with 5000 sterling pounds and exchanged
the money using the exchange rates below through an agent at a commission of 1.5% .
Buying (ksh) Selling(ksh)
1 sterling pound 135.50 136.20
1 us dollar 99.20 101.30
While in Kenya, the tourist spent Ksh 250, 000 on accommodation and travelling and converted
the rest into US dollars. Calculate to the nearest US dollar, the amount of money the tourist left
Kenya with? (3 marks)

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3. Express 1 . 4 8 1 in proper fraction. (3 marks)

4. Mandela works as a salesman. He is paid a salary of sh. 24,000 per month

plus a commission of 2.5% of his sales. In one month, he sold goods
worth shs.100,000. How much did he earn altogether?
(3 marks)

5. Draw a line segment AB = 10cm and locate a point P which divides AB in

the ratio 6: 1 (3
marks)

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6. Find the greatest number which when used to divide 181 and 236, the
remainder is always 5.
(3 marks)

7. How many fencing posts spaced 5m apart are required to fence a

rectangular plot measuring 755m by 210m?
(3 marks)

( x +1){a( x−1)+b ( x−1)}

8. Simplify (1−x )(ax+bx−a−b ) (4 Marks)

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9.The exterior angle of a regular polygon is an eighth of the interior angle.
Calculate the sum of its interior angles.
(3marks)

10. Find the least amount of cement that can be put into bags which all
contain 20kg or 25kg or 45kg.
(3 marks)

11. A rectangular flower bed measuring 4.2m by 6.8m is surrounded by a

path 1m wide. Find the area of the path.
(3 marks)

−15÷3−2×4
12. Evaluate 4×5−18÷−3 (4
Marks)

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13. 5men can erect 2 cottages in 21 days, how many more men, working at
the same rate, will be needed to construct 6 cottages in the same period.
(3 marks)

14. The mass of two bags of beans and three bags of salt is 410kg. If the
mass of three bags of beans and two bags salt is 390kg, find the mass of
each bag.
(3 marks)

15. Use squares and square root tables to evaluate. (4

marks)

3. 456 2 −√ 80. 49
2

16. Sketch the net of the solid shown in the figure below, measurements are
in centimetres
(3marks) D

F
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6 6 E
5

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SECTION Ⅱ (50MARKS)
ANSWER ALL THE FIVE QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION
17. The cost of making a table consist of transport, labour and raw material in the ratio 4:2:6
respectively. During an inflation year the transport cost increased by 6%, the labour by 9% and
raw materials by 20%.

a) Find the percentage increase in producing a table. (6 marks)

b) What was the old price of a table if the new price is Kshs.680.00. (2 marks)

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c) How much would Raisa have saved if she buys a dozen of tables at the old price?
(2 marks)

18. (a) Construct a trapezium ABCD with AB parallel to DC. AB = 10cm, BC =

5cm, CD = AD = 4cm and angle ABC = 450. Measure DB and AC.
(6 Marks)

(b) On the diagram construct a circle touching the vertices ABC. Measure the
radius of the circle.
(4 Marks)

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19. Points A,B,C and D are form corners of an Island and are such that B is
200km from A on a bearing of N600E. C is 380km from B and on a bearing
of 1400. Point C is on a bearing of 0600 from D and D is due south of B.
(a) Using a scale of 1cm represents 50km, show the positions of A,B,C and
D. (4 marks)

(b)Use the scale drawing to determine

(i) Distance AC (2
marks)

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(ii) Distance DC (2
marks)

(iii) Bearing of A from C (1 mark)

(iv) Bearing of D from A (1 mark)

20. A bookstore had 30816 exercise books which were packed in cartons.
Each carton contained 24 exercise books. The mass of an empty carton
was 2 kg and a full carton 12 kg.
(a) How many cartons were there? (2 Marks)

(b) What was the total mass of the empty cartons? (2

Marks)

(c) What was the total mass of the books alone? (3

Marks)

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(d) Given that the average density of each book is 0.75g/cm 3, find the total
space occupied by the books. (3
Marks)

21. A man deposited a certain amount of money in a bank. The following

table shows the amount of money due to him at the end of every year.
Time (Years) 1 2 3 4 5

Amount (Shillings) 45,000 50,000 55,000 60,000 65,000

(a) Using a suitable scale, plot the graph of the amount of money in the bank against time. (5
Marks)

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(b) From the graph estimate his initial deposit in the bank. (2 Marks)

(c ) Supposing that after 3 and a half years he withdrew some amount of

money such that the balance was Shs.40,000. How much did he withdraw?
(3 Marks)

MATHEMATICS (Alternative A)
FORM ONE (1)
Time: 2½ Hours

For Examiners’ Use Only

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SECTION I

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SECTION II

17 18 19 20 21 Total
Grand
Total

SECTION I (50Mrks)
Answer ALL the Questions in the section
1. Evaluate: (4 marks)
1 3 1
2 of 1 −5
2 4 4
2 1 3
1 + 2(1 −2 )
5 4 4

2. An electrician made a loss of 30% by selling a multi plug at Sh. 1400. What profit would he
have made if he sold the multi plug at sh 2300. (3 marks)

3. Harell had 985 bales of baking flour in his store. He sold 497 of them. If each bale contained
12 packets, how many packets remained? (3 marks)

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4. Simplify 4(q+6) + 7(q-3) (3 marks)

5. The figure below shows a net of a solid.

a) Sketch the solid of the net showing the hidden edges with broken lines.
(2 marks)
b) Find the total surface area of the solid. (2 marks)

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6. It would take 15men 8days to dig a trench of 240m long. Find how many days it would take
18men to dig a trench 360meters long working at the same rate.
(3 marks)

7. A regular polygon is such that its exterior angle is one eighth the size of interior angle. Find
the number of sides of the polygon. (3 marks)

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8. Convert 0.6 3 to a fraction (3 marks)

9. A Canadian tourist arrived in Nairobi with Canadian dollars 6200. She converted all his
money into Kenya Shillings and then spent a total of Kshs. 100,000. She paid her Kenyan
tour guide a commission equivalent to 20% of the remainder. Given that 1 canadian dollar =
Ksh. 48.12. calculate
i. How much she got in kenya shillings after converting all her money. (1 mark)

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ii. The amount of kenya shillings she was left with at the end. (2 marks)

√729 x 625
10. Without using tables, evaluate 225 (3 marks)

11. A father is now four times as old as his son. Five years ago, he was exactly one year and half
times as old as his son will be in ten years from now. Determine the sum of their present
ages. (4 marks)

12. An arc length of 11cm subtends an angle of 140° at the circle. Find the area of the enclosed
sector. (3 marks)

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13. A sum of money is divided among three men X, Y and Z in the ratio 5:3:1. If Y has ksh 700
more than Z, calculate how much X has (3 marks)

14. Evaluate -42+-2(10÷-5) -(-17) (3 marks)

15. An Educational complex has a nursery school, primary school and a secondary school. A
lesson in the nursery school last 60 min, while in primary it last 30 minutes and in secondary
it lasts 40 min. The lesson began at 8.00 am on Monday. At what time of the day again shall
they begin together (3 marks)

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16. 2.5 litres of water of density 1.1g/cm3 is added to 5 litres of alcohol of density 0.8 g/cm3.
Calculate the density of the mixture. (3 marks)

SECTION II (50 marks)

Answer all the questions from this section

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17. (a) Riggy G travelled to London with ksh 360,000. He exchanged the Kenya shilling for
sterling pounds on arrival when the exchange rate was ₤1 sterling pound = ksh 104.
Determine to the nearest pound how much he received if the bank charged him 2½ %
commission. (4 marks)

(b) In London, he spent ₤2025 and then travelled to Washington D.C where he exchanged the
balance of his money for US dollars. The rate of exchange was ₤1 sterling pound = 1.6 US
dollar. How much did he receive in US dollar assuming no commission was charged?
(3 marks)

(c) He spent ¾ of the money and then travelled back to Nairobi. He exchanged the remaining
dollars into Kenya shilling at the rate 1U.S dollar = Ksh 73.25. How much did he receive in
Kenya shilling assuming that no commission was charged
(3 marks)

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18. Three ships X, Y and Z are approaching a habour H. X is 150km from the habour on a
bearing of O90°. Y is 130km from the habour on a bearing of 130°E and Z is 180km to the
west of Y.
a) Taking a scale of 1cm to represent 20km, make a scale drawing of the routes of the three
ships to the habour. (6 marks)

b) What is the distance between ships X and Z? (2 marks)

c) Find the bearing of H from Z. (2 marks)

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19. in a certain meeting, there were 95men in attendance. There were 50 more women than men
and twice as many children as men.
a. Determine the number of people in attendance. (2 marks)

b. Find the percentage of children in attendance, correct to 3 significant figures.

(2 marks)

c. A hall for the meeting was fitted with benches that could accommodate either10 children
or 7 adults per bench.
Find the number of benches
i. Used by the children (2 mar ks)

ii. Completely filled by the adults. (2 marks)

iii. Adults who would fill the unoccupied space. (2 marks)

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20. Using a ruler and a pair of compasses, construct parallelogram ABCD such that AB = 8cm,
diagonal AC = 12cm and angle BAC = 22.5° (4 marks)

a) Measure (i) The diagonal BD (1 mark)

(ii) The angle ABC (1 mark)

b) Draw the circumference of triangle ABC (2 marks)

c) Calculate the area of the circle drawn (2 marks)

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21. A slaughter house bought a number of goats at sh. 2000 each and a number of bulls at
sh. 15,000 each. They paid a total of sh. 190,000. If they bought twice as many goats
and three bulls less, they would have saved sh. 5000.
(a)Find the number of each type of animal bought (5 marks)

(b)The slaughter house sold all the animals at a profit of 25% per goat and 30% per bull.
Determine the total profit they made. (5 marks)

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