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Numeracy Skills Cat 2025 2

The document is an assessment paper for occupational therapy and mental health, focusing on demonstrating numeracy skills. It contains various mathematical problems, including patterns, fractions, percentages, and geometry, divided into two sections with a total of 40 marks. Students are required to solve problems related to real-life scenarios such as sales, discounts, and measurements.

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Numeracy Skills Cat 2025 2

The document is an assessment paper for occupational therapy and mental health, focusing on demonstrating numeracy skills. It contains various mathematical problems, including patterns, fractions, percentages, and geometry, divided into two sections with a total of 40 marks. Students are required to solve problems related to real-life scenarios such as sales, discounts, and measurements.

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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY/ MENTAL HEALTH

UNIT: DEMONSTRATE NUMERACY SKILLS TIME: 2 HOURS


DATE……………………………………………………

NAME………………………………………………………. REG.NO…………………………………………………

SECTION A (10 marks)

1. What is the next number in the pattern 2, 6, 12, 20, 30 ….?


A. 36
B. 40
C. 42
D. 50
3 1 1 1
2. What is the value of + − +
5 8 4 2
33
A.
40
14
B.
25
1
C.
5
9
D.
40
3. What is the square root of the number obtained when 196 is
multiplied by 4?
A. 28
B. 56
C. 392
D. 784
4. Two shelves are to be joined to provide space for bigger file storage.
If the first shelf length measure 4meters 56cm and 6mm, while the
second shelf measure 3 meters48cm and 4mm. what will be the new
length of the joined shelf?
A. 8.5m
B. 8 meters 5 cm
C. 8.41 meters
D. 8meters, 4cm and 1mm
5. On a map of scale 1:100,000 a rectangular plot of land measures
7cm by 4cm. what are the actual lengths of the plot in kilometres?
A. 70,000 by 40,000
B. 700 by 400
C. 70 by 40
D. 7 by 4
6. Adole bought 50 pineapples at kshs.30 each and paid kshs.100 for
transport to the market. During transportation 5 pineapples got
spoilt. She sold the rest at kshs.50 each. What percentage profit to the
nearest whole number did she make?
A. 40%
B. 41%
C. 46%
D. 39%
7.What fraction is shaded?

9
A.
6
6
B.
9
3
C.
5
9
D.
10
8. Mumbi paid kshs.1,800 for a chair after 10% discount was allowed.
How much would she have paid for the chair had she been allowed a
12% discount?
A. 2000
B. 1760
C. 1584
D. 240
9. What is the perimeter of the figure shown below?

A. 92m
B. 83m
C. 99m
D. 85m
10. The diagram below represents a vegetable garden.

22
What is the area of the garden in square metres? Take π=
7

A. 693 m2
B. 1008m2
C. 1085 m2
D. 1162 m2

SECTION B (30 marks)


11. You work as a painter and a client has invited you to paint the
structure shown below. The entire item outer surface area except the
22
base of the cube is to be painted and only one coat is needed. Using π=
7

a) Calculate the surface area in m2 that was painted?


(4 Marks)
b) 1 litre of paint covers 20m2. How many litres of paint will be
required to accomplish the work?
(2 Marks)

13. A team scores the following number of points in 12 matches:


21, 18, 3, 12, 15, 18, 42, 18, 24, 6, 12, 3
Determine the
a) mean score. (2 marks)
b) mode. (1 mark)
c) median. (2 marks)

14. Solve the simultaneous

5x + 2y = 1

6x – 7y = 20
(4 Marks)

15. A local map has a scale of 1:22500. The distance between two towns is 5.4
km. Determine the distance between the two towns on the map.
(3 marks)

16. A salesman with hardware goods sold 2500 pieces of iron sheets at ksh.700
per piece and 3000packets of cement at ksh.750 per packet. If he gets 5%
commission on the sales, calculate his total commission
(4 marks)

17. Solve the equation

22x = 16x-1
(3 marks)

18. Three bells ring at an interval of 30 minutes, 45minutes and 50 minutes. If


they ring simultaneously at 9:30 am on Saturday, at what time will they ring
together (3mks)

19. The diameter of a sphere is 30cm. calculate

a) surface area (2mks)

b) volume (2mks)

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