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MATHEMATICS
FORM 2
JULY 2024
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS
END OF TERM TWO EXAMINATION

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education 2024

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1. Write your name and admission number in the spaces provided at the top of this
page.
2. This paper consists of two sections: Section I and Section II.
3. Answer all questions in section I and Section II.
4. Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the
spaces below each question.

5. Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
6. KNEC Mathematical tables may be used.

For Examiner’s Use Only

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

17 18 19 20 21 Grand
Total

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 SECTION I (50 marks)
1. Simplify the expression; (3 marks)

2. Express 0. 3̇7̇ as a fraction (3 marks)

3. A sales lady earns a basic salary of Ksh 12 400 per month. In addition, she gets a 2%
commission on the first Ksh 80 000 worth of good and a further 3% commission on goods
worth over Ksh 80 000. In a certain month, she earned a total of Ksh 20 000. Calculate the
value of the goods sold that month. (3 marks)

4. Express the following as a single fraction in its simplest form. (3 marks)

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5. Use tables of square root ,square and reciprocals to evaluate; (3
marks)

6. Find the values of A if sin 𝐴 = cos(𝐴 + 20) (3

marks)

7. A Kenyan bank buys and sells foreign exchange as follows;

Currency Buying (Ksh.) Selling (Ksh.)
1 sterling pound 132.40 132.75
1 US dollar 100.40 121.84

A tourist arrived in Kenya with 3500 USD. He converted all the dollars to Kenyan shillings
at the bank. While in Kenya, he spend KSh.115 000 and then converted the rest of the money
to sterling pounds. Determine how much he received to the nearest sterling pounds. (3
marks)

8. Use logs correct to 4 d.p to evaluate; (4

marks)

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9. Find the volume of the wedge below; (3
marks)

10. Without using mathematical tables or calculator, evaluate; (3

marks)

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11. In the triangle ABD, BA is parallel to CE given that BA = 18 cm, CE = 8 cm and AE
= 6cm. Find the length of DE.

12. When a given length of a piece of wire is divided into pieces measuring 20 cm or 24 cm or
26 cm or 28 cm, a piece of wire 7cm always remained. Find the length of wire. (3 marks)

13. ABC is a right angled triangle where angle BAC = 60 and AB = 8 cm. ABN is a sector of a
circle centre A.

Find the area of the shaded region. (3 marks)

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 𝑥 + 2𝑦 = 4
14. Find the point of intersection of the following equations; (3 marks)

2𝑥 + 𝑦 = 5

15. Without using mathematical tables or a calculator evaluate. (3 marks)

16. A rectangle measuring 54 m by 72 m is to be covered by equal square tiles.

i. Find the largest size of tile if only whole tiles are used. (2 marks)

SECTION II (50 marks) 17. The coordinates of a triangle ABC are A (1, 1) B(3, 1) and
ii. Find the number of such tiles that are used. (1 mark)

C (1, 3).
a) Plot the triangle ABC. (1 mark)

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 b) Triangle ABC undergoes a reflection in the line 𝑥 = 2. Obtain the image of 𝐴′𝐵′𝐶′
under the transformation, write the coordinates of 𝐴′𝐵′𝐶′. (2
marks)

c) 𝐴′𝐵′𝐶′ undergoes a reflection along the line 𝑥 = 0, obtain the coordinates and plot
on the graph points 𝐴"𝐵"𝐶", under the transformation. (2
marks)

d) The triangle "𝐵"𝐶" , undergoes an enlargement scale factor −1, centre origin.

the coordinates of the image 𝐴′′′𝐵′′′𝐶′′′.

Obtain
(2
marks)

e) The triangle 𝐴′′′𝐵′′′𝐶′′′ undergoes a rotation centre (1, −2) angle 1200. Obtain
the

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 coordinates of the image 𝐴′′′′𝐵′′′′𝐶′′′′. (2
marks)

f) Which triangles are directly congruent. (1 mark)

18. A straight line 𝑙1 has a gradient
passes through the points 𝑄 (1, −3) and 𝑅 (4, 5) Find:
and passes through the point (−1, 3). Another line 2

a) (i) The equation of 𝑙1 in the form = 𝑚𝑥 + 𝑐, where m and c are constants. (2 marks)

(ii) Hence find the y intercept of line 𝑙1 (2 marks)

b) (i) The gradient of 𝑙2 (1 mark)

(ii) The equation of 𝑙2 in the form 𝑎𝑥 + 𝑏𝑦 = , where , and are integral values.
(2 marks)

c) The equation of a line passing through a point (0, 5) and perpendicular to 𝑙2. (3
marks)

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 divides the line AB in the ratio 1: 2
19. The figure below shows two circles with centres A and B which are 12 cm apart and CD

Calculate to 4 significant figures the;

a) Size of angle CAD. (2 marks)

b) Size of angle CBD. (2 marks)

c) Area of shaded region (take 𝜋 = 3.142) (6

marks)

20. Michael runs a home for the aged. In the year 2009 the cost of maintaining the home was
Ksh 135 000 per month. This cost was made up of food cost, staff wages and health charges

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 in the ratio 3: 4: 2 respectively. In 2010 the cost of food and staff wages rose by 10% and
15% respectively while the cost of health care reduced by 5%.
a) Determine the 2009 monthly cost of food (2 marks)

b) Determine the cost of maintaining the home monthly in 2010. (3 marks)

c) In 2011 the cost of maintaining the home was Ksh 164 450 per month. In that year the
cost of food and staff wages rose by 20% and 5 % more than those in 2010. Calculate;
I. Staff wages monthly cost in 2011 (2
marks)

II. The percentage increase in health cost between 2010 and 2011. (3
marks)

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21. A trader bought 8 cows and 12 goats for a total of Ksh 294,000. If he had bought 1 more
cow and 3 more goats he would have spent Ksh 337,500
a) Form two equations to represent the above information. (2 marks)

b) Use elimination method to determine the cost of a cow and that of a goat. (4 marks)

c) The trader sold the animals he had bought making a profit of 40% per cow and 45% per
goat. Calculate the total amount of money he received. (2 marks)

d) Determine his profit in Kenya shillings. (2 marks)

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