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THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE


REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SECONDARY SCHOOL

FORM TWO EXAMINATION


041 BASIC MATHEMATICS
Time: 2 ½ Hours May 2024

INSTRUCTIONS
1. This paper consists of a total of 10 questions.
2. Attempt all questions.
3. Each question carries 10 marks.
4. Mathematical tables and non-programmable calculators are not allowed.
5. Write your examination number on every page of your answer sheets.

QUESTION SCORE EXAMINER’S INITIALS


NUMBER
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
TOTAL

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1. (a) i. Which number is greater than 623 098 by 1 050 069?

ii. The school fee per child is sh. 2 500 800 per year. Seypalm paid one million three hundred
thousand and forty shillings. How much money does he owe the school so far?

(b) i. Find the sum of the LCM and the GCF of the following numbers:

ii. Convert ̇ into simple fraction.

2. (a) Round off each of the following to tenths


i. 3.25

ii. 3.35

(b) A rabbit weigh 4 kg 21 dag 48 dg. How many rabbits will weigh 50 kg 57 dag 78 dg?

3. (a) Find the area and perimeter in the following figure:


A 2.7 m B

4m

Figure 1
C D
3m

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i. The area

ii. The perimeter

(b) In the following figure, the shaded region represents the area of the farm that is grown onions.
Find the cost of spraying pesticide for onions for the whole farm if costs 25 000 shillings
18 m
A B

7m

Figure 2

D C

4. (a) One positive number is of another number. The difference between the two numbers is 76.
Find the numbers.

(b) i. Solve for

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ii. Solve the following:

5. (a) Seypalm deposited 564 000 shillings in a bank which provides rate of per year. What
interest did he get after 6 months?

(b) Juma, Peter, and Sarah shared 1 200 000 shillings in the ratio of 2: 3: 5. Find the difference
between the amount of money shared by Sarah and Peter.

6. (a) Convert into slope intercept form and state its gradient and
intercept.

(b) The point is reflected on to get the point , then followed by another
reflection on to get the point . If the coordinates o f , find the value of

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7. (a) i. Write 0.00000672 in scientific notation

ii. Solve: [ ]

(b) i. Seypalm raised a certain number to the power of four and he got 60561. Which number
did he raise to the power of four?

ii. Solve:

8. (a) Given: bisect each other at M. . Prove

Figure 3

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(b) If in the following figure, use the indicated measures to find the measures of
the remaining parts of each triangles.

8m

A 39o
B
Figure 4 D

9. (a) i. Find the length of the missing side ‘a’ in the following triangle.

10 m a

Figure 5
24 m

ii. If cos , find

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iii. Seypalm stands 30 m from the base of a tower. He measures the angle of elevation from
the ground level to the top of the tower as Calculate the height of the tower. Give the
answer to 3 significant figures

10. (a) (i) Out of a class 30 children, 15 are on the netball teams and 18 are on the basketball teams.
Six children are on both teams. How many children are not on either teams?

(ii) Given that : { }

{ }
{ }.

Find the n (

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(b) The following are fruits sold in a certain market, whereby 1 Pictograph represents 100 fruits.

Apples

Paw paws

Pineapples

Oranges

Bananas

i. If one less orange than paw paws were sold, how many pineapples were sold out in that
market? Given that a total of 2800 fruits were sold out.

ii. If you were to sell fruits in that market, which fruit would you like to sell? If other things are
constant.

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