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MATHEMATICS
Paper 2
July 2017
2 ½ Hours
3GS JOINT EVALUATION - 2017
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)

Instructions to candidates

1. Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
2. Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
3. The paper contains two sections: Section I and Section II.
4. Answer All the questions in section I and strictly any five questions from Section II.
5. All answers and working must be written on the question paper in the spaces provided
below each question.
6. Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the spaces
below each question.
7. Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
8. Non-programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC mathematical tables may be
used, except unless stated otherwise.

For Examiners use only.

Section II
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Grand Total

This paper consists of 16 printed pages .Candidates should check the question paper to
Ensure that all the pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing

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 SECTION 1 (50 Marks)

Answer all the questions in this section

1. Use logarithm to evaluate (4marks)

2. A merchant blends 350kg of tea costing sh 84 kg with 140kg of tea costing sh 105 per
kg. At what price must he sell the mixture to gain 25%. (3marks)

3. Make R the subject of the formula N = (3marks)

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4. Determine the amplitude, the period and phase angle of the graph

Y = 4 sin (3marks)

5. In the figure below O is the centre of the circle. AB is a chord and AD = AB.
Determine the angles. (3marks)

(a) BAD

(b) ACB

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 (c) AOB

6. The probability of winning a game is 0.8. The probability of winning a second game is
0.9 if the first is won and 0.6 if the first one is lost. Using a tree diagram find the
probability of winning at least one game out of two. (3marks)

7. Evaluate the definite integral (3marks)

8. Simplify without using tables or calculator 8 - + (3marks)

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9. Give 6.3 ÷ 3.0 find :
(a) the absolute error in the quotient (2marks)

(b) The percentage error in the quotient.

(2marks)

10. In the figure below AB is a tangent to the circle. ACD is a straight line. Find the value of
K (2marks)

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11. (a) Expand (1marks)

(b) Use the first three terms of the expansion in (a) above to find the approximate value
of (2marks)

12. Find without using tables or calculator the values of x which satisfy the equation
log4(x2 - 9) = 2log42 + 1. (3marks)

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13. Find the value of T for which the matrix below is singular. (3marks)

14. Find the Centre and radius of the circle whose equation is x2 + y2 – 4y – 21 = 0 (3marks)

15. Solve the equation below for xin the range 00 ≤x≤ 3600 25cosx= 16sinxtanx (3marks)

16. The table below shows the ages in years of 60 people who attended a conference in
Winston hotel in Nairobi.

Age in years 30 - 39 40 - 49 50 -59 60 -69 70 - 79

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 Number of people 10 12 18 17 3

Calculate the quartile deviations of the data . (4marks)

SECTION 1I (50 Marks)

17. A curve is represented by the function y = x3 + x2 – 3x + 2

(a) Find (1mark)

(b) find the stationary points of the curve above hence determine their nature.(6mark)

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 (c) in the space provided below , sketch the curve in (a) above. (3marks)

18. The figure below shows a triangle inscribed in a circle. AB = 6cm, BC = 9cm and AC = 10

Calculate.
(i) The radius of the circle. (4marks)

(ii) (ii) The area of the shaded part. (6marks)

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 19. (a) Complete the table below, giving your values correct to 2 decimal places.(2marks)

x 00 300 600 900 1200 1500 1800 2100 2400 2700 3000 3300 3600
Y = Sin(x0 + 100) 0.17 0.64 0.98 0.34 -0.94 0.77 0.34

Y = 2cos x 2 1 0 -1.73 -1 0 2

(b) On the grid provided draw the graphs of y = 2cosx0 and y = sin(x0 + 10) for
00≤ x0≤ 3600. Use the scale of 1cm to represent 300on the x-axis and 2cm to
represent 1 unit on the y-axis. (5marks)

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 ( c) from your graph solve the equation
(i) sin(x0 + 100) = 0 (1marks)

(ii) sin(x0 + 100) – 2cosx0 = 0 (2marks)

Calculate:
(a) the length of FC (2marks)

(b) (i) the size of the angle between the lines FC and FH. (2marks)

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 (ii) the size of the angle between the lines AB and FH (3marks)

(c) The size of the angle between the planes ABHE and the plane FGHE. (3marks)

21. Three quantities P,Q and R are such that P varies directly as the square of Q and
inversely as the square root of R.
(a) Given that P = 20 when Q = 5 and R = 9,
(i) Find the law connecting P,Q and R. (3marks)

(ii) Determine R when P = 6 and Q = 25 (2marks)

(c) If Q increases by 20% and R decreases by 36% , find the percentage change in P.
(5marks)

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22. A plane leaves town A ( 240S, 100 E) and flies due north for 10.5 hrs at a speed of 480
knots. It reaches a town B.
(a) Find the position of town B. (3marks).

(b) The plane then flies west to a town C for 3 hours at the same speed. Find the
position of town C (4marks)

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 (c) If the time at A when the plane is at C is 0800hrs, what is the time at C. (3marks)

23.. (a) The first term of an Arithmetic Progression(AP) is 2. The sum of the first 8 terms of the

AP is 156.

(i) Find the common difference of the AP. (2 marks)

(ii) Given that the sum of the firstn terms of the AP is 416, findn. (2 marks)

(a) The third, fifth and eighth terms of another AP form the first three consecutive terms of a
Geometric Progression (GP). If the common difference of the AP is 3, find
(i) The first term of the GP; (4 marks)

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 (ii) The sum of the first 9 terms of the GP, to 4 significant figures. (2 marks)

24.KentlandCompany is considering installing two types of machines, Type A and type B, for
assembly of spare parts of laptops. Type A machines requires 10 operators while type B
machine requires 5 operators. The number of type B machines must be more than the
number of type A machines. The total number of spare parts assembled per hour must be at
least 3. There should be at least 3 type A machines and at most 7 type B machines.

(a)Taking x to be the number of type A machines andy to be the number of type B

(b) On the grid provided represent all the inequalities in (a) above. (4marks)

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(c) If the company makes a profit of ksh 6 per hour on type A machine and ksh 2 per hour on
type B machine, use a search line to determine the number of machines of each type that
should be installed to maximize the profit (2marks)

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