MASENO SCHOOL

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

FORM ONE END TERM

MATHEMATICS Alt. A 
April 2023 – 2½ hours

Name ……………..…………………………………… Admission Number ………………….

Class …………………… Date …………….…………Candidate’s Signature………………...

Instructions to candidates

a) Write your name and admission number in the spaces provided above.
b) Write your class, the date of examination and sign in the spaces provided above.
c) This paper consists of two sections; Section I and Section II.
d) Answer all the questions in Section I and all questions in Section II.
e) Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the spaces provided
below each question.
f) Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
g) Non – programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC Mathematical tables may be used, except
where stated otherwise.
h) This paper consists of 10 printed pages.
i) Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as indicated
and that no questions are missing.
j) Candidates should answer the questions in English.

For Examiner’s Use Only

Section I

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

Section II

17 18 19 20 21 Total
Grand Total

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SECTION I (50 Marks)

Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided.
1. The product of all composite numbers between 10  20 formed a number K while another number P
is formed by arranging all square numbers between 1  10 inclusively. Determine the total value of
the second digit in k  P (3 Marks)

3380 2
2. Express 3 380 and 16 900 each as a product of its prime factors, hence evaluate leaving your
16900
answer in prime factor form (4 Marks)

3. Using a test of divisibility, show that 7 221 104 is divisible by 11. (2 Marks)

32  (7)  2(4)  (5)

4. Without using a calculator, evaluate (3 Marks)
1  (6)  3  6

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5. In twelve years’ time, a father will be two and a half times as old as his daughter. Two years ago,
the sum of their ages was 28 years. How old will be the father when the daughter is 18 years old.
(4 Marks)

6. Lines are drawn so as to divide a rectangle 40 cm long by 24 cm wide into equal squares. Find the
least possible number of squares (3 Marks)

4kl  8lp  2kp  4 p 2

7. Simplify completely (3 Marks)
2 p 2  4lp

       
8. Express 0.45 and 0.336 as fractions. Hence work out 0.336 0.45 leaving your answer as a
simplified fraction (3 Marks)

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9. Zendaya spends of her salary on house rent, on food and of the remainder to pay bills. If she
4 3 5
still remains with sh. 7 200.calculate her annual salary (3 Marks)

181.5  0.36
10. Without using tables or calculator evaluate (4 Marks)
0.48  0.72

11. Either by striding 72 cm or by striding 76 cm a boy uses an exact number of steps to cross a road.
Determine the maximum number of steps covered. (3 Marks)

12. Use tables of squares and square root to evaluate 29.862  0.7356 (3 Marks)

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1 2
6 2
13. Without using a calculator, evaluate 5 3  4 of 3 (3 Marks)
3  1 5
 
7  4

14. Eighty-six members of a women’s group wish to purchase land which they will subdivide and
receive 4 acres each, build a school on 5 acres, shops on 3 acres and a police post on 2 acres.
(a) What size of land do they require to buy? (2 Marks)

(b) If 1 acre costs sh. 145 000 what is the total amount that they should raise to purchase the land in
words. (2 Marks)

45
15. Express as decimal fraction by first changing the denominator to a power of ten
80
(2 Marks)

16. In a mixed school the number of girls is three times that of boy. A third of the girls are day scholars.
The number of day scholar boys is a third of the number of day scholar girls. If there are 50-day
scholar boys. What is the total number of students in the school? (3 Marks)

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SECTION II (50 Marks)

Answer only five questions from this section in the spaces provided.
mp  qm m2  2m
17. (a). i. Simplify by factorising  (2 Marks)
q p m2

36x  y   7  x  y 
ii. Expand and simplify completely (3 Marks)
5 x  y  7 y

4x  6 2x  7
(b) i. Solve for x given  14  (3 Marks)
2 4

a  b2
ii. Find the value of 20  when a=4 and b=6 (2 Marks)
a

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18. (a) A bookstore had 61 632 exercise books which were packed in cartoons. Each carton contained
24 exercise books. The mass of an empty carton was 2.5 kg and a full carton 12.5 kg
i. How many cartons were there? (2 Marks)

ii. What was the total mass of all exercise books to the nearest tones? (3 Marks)

(b). i. What fraction in words does letter K represent in the diagram below? (2 Marks)
K L L L W
W K L W K
L L K L L
L K W K L

7 6 3 2
 1  of 2
ii. Evaluate 8 7 5 3 (3 Marks)
 3 3 3
1   
 4 7 4

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19. (a). Three bells ring at intervals of 12 minutes, 10 minutes and 8 minutes. If they rang first at 10.15
am. Find when they will ring for
i. The second time (3 Marks)

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ii. The fifth time (2 Marks)

(b). When a number is divided into by 16,18 and 12 the remainders are 14,16 and 10 respectively.
Find the number (3 Marks)

(c). Use prime factorisation method find the sum of L.C.M and G.C.D of 432 and 864 (2 Marks)

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20. (a). Test if 27100  7300 is divisible by;

i. 5 (2 Marks)

ii. 8 (2 Marks)

iii. 9 (2 Marks)

16  4  18  6 3  4  2  2
(b). Evaluate without using a calculator  (4 Marks)
32  4  2 24  4  8

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21. A group of 240 people planned to contribute sh. 4 800 000 to start a business. However, before
contributions were made 80 members pulled out.
(a). Find the initial amount of money each member in the group was to contribute.
(2 Marks)

(b). After the 80 members pulled out, calculate the new amount each member contributed
(2 Marks)

(c). fourty new members joined the group just before the business started. As a result, the old
members were refunded some money. How much was refunded per member
(3 Marks)

(d). Calculate the percentage change between the amount to be contributed by 240 members and the
one contributed by current members (3 Marks)

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