QUESTION;
- What is sixty seven million one hundred and seven thousand eight hundred and thirty four in symbols?
- 67017834
- 67107834
- 67701834
- 67107384
- What is the total value of digit 4 in the quotient of 487420+20?
- 24371
- 24731
- 4000
- 400
- The size of Africa is 30335000km. Round off the size to the nearest hundred thousands.
- 30335000
- 30000000
- 30340000
- 30300000
- What is 12 (87-22)-48+8?
- 74
- 86
- 79
- 80
- What is the square root of the next number in the pattern
5, 10, 15, 20,?- 6
- 5
- 25
- 35
- What is the value of 1⁄2 of (10-4)+% of 8+2-2x6+4?
- 4
- 6
- 3
- 8
- Kambo has x books, Susan has 5 more books than Kambo. Borine has three books less than the total number that Kambo and Susan have. How many books do they have altogether?
- 4x+13
- 4x+3
- 4x+7
- 4x-3
- What is the value of 77834+138384+328493?
- 406327
- 544711
- 466877
- 547411
- In Green Pastures school library, 64% the books are in Mathematics, 24% are in Science and the rest in Kiswahili language. What is the total number of books in the school library if the Kiswahili books are 48?
- 352
- 400
- 96
- 256
- A square farm has an area of 7.29km2 What is the measure of each side in metres?
- 0.027m
- 2700m
- 2.7m
- 2700m
- The figure below represents a feeding trough whose dimensions are as shown.
What is its total surface area?- 15939cm2
- 15993cm2
- 15592.5cm2
- 1831.5cm2
- The solid figure below was drawn by teacher Tom on the chalkboard.
What is the area of the shaded part?- 794cm2
- 1176cm3
- 1928cm3
- 749cm3
- The total area of four square tiles is 121cm. What is the length of each tile?
- 15% cm
- 2 cm
- 51⁄2 cm
- 30cm
- A trader bought two television sets each Sh. 33,500. She later sold them for sh. 60,000 after 2 years. What is the loss she made on each television?
- sh. 7,000
- sh. 3,500
- sh. 30,000
- sh. 16,750
- The volume of a cylindrical container is 12936cm'. If its height is 21cm, find the diameter of the container. (Take л=%)
- 14cm
- 28cm
- 42cm
- 21cm
- A Science textbook has 164 sheets of paper and a cover. Each sheet of paper has a mass of 5 grams and the cover has a mass of 25g. Find the mass of the book in kilograms.
- 820
- 845
- 0.845
- 0.82
- A square field has a side measuring 50m. How many times should Kamau go round the plot to cover 5 kilometres?
- 250
- 100
- 25
- 250
- Kinyua went round the figure below three times.
What is the total distance covered by Kinyua after going three times around the figure? (Take лt=2%)- 282m
- 846m
- 564m
- 249m
- In the figure below ABC =110', PCB = 60° and angle DPC is 35°. Line XDC is parallel to line PBA.
What is the size of angle XDP?- 110°
- 95°
- 85°
- 35°
- The diagram below is an incomplete parallelogram KLMN. Complete the parallelogram and draw diagonals to intersect at O.
What is the measure of the longest diagonal in centimetres?- 3.7cm
- 6.5cm
- .7.9cm
- 3.9cm
- A school received 256 litres of milk packed in 2 decilitre packets. If the packets were in crates each holding 32 packets, how many crate were received?
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 40
- In the figure below ADE is a straight line. Line AD = line AC. Line DE = DC. Line AB is parallel to line DC. Angle DEC= 25° and angle ABC is a right angle.
What is the size of angle BCA?- 50°
- 10°
- 80°
- 40°
- What is 25:75 in its simplest form?
- 1:3
- 3:1
- 5:15
- 75:25
- The following are properties of a certain quadrilateral.
- All sides are equal
- Opposite sides are parallel and equal
- Diagonals are not equal
- Diagonals bisect each other at a right angle.
Which of the following has the properties described above?- Square
- Rhombus
- Parallelogram
- Rectangle
- A watch loses 5 seconds after every 2 hours. If it was correctly set on Thursday at 2.00pm, what time will it show the following Thursday at 2:00pm?
- 1.53pm
- 1.53am
- 2.07am
- 2.07pm
- The table below shows the amount of sugar in kilograms sold in a Richard's shop in 6 days.
Days Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Kgs 40 36 44 32 42 46 - 32
- 46
- 240
- 40
- Justin deposited sh. 170,000 in a savings bank that paid simple interest at the rate of 14% p.a. He withdrew all the interest after 11⁄2 years. How much did he withdraw?
- sh. 205700
- sh. 35700
- sh. 13566
- sh. 207366
- A lorry covered a distance of 200km in 3 hours. It then covered another distance at a speed of 60km/hr for 2hours. What was the average speed for the whole journey?
- 37km/hr
- 64km/hr
- 31km/hr
- 37.3km/hr
- The figure below is a trapezium whose area is 864m'. Its height is 16cm and one of the parallel sides is 48m.
What is the measure of the part labelled x in metres?- 108cm
- 60cm
- 12cm
- 20cm
- What is the value of 2r+q if p=4, q=2p+1 and r-q+2?
p- 7%
- 5%
- 10
- 72
- The price of a crate of tomatoes increased in the ratio of 6:5. What would be the new price of the crate of tomatoes if the original price was sh. 2,600?
- sh. 3,120
- sh. 2,166
- sh. 2,600
- sh. 5,720
- What is the value of 4x + 7 given that x is 1⁄2?
- 11
- 2
- 9
- 7
- What is 387.2775 rounded off to the nearest thousandths?
- 387.0000
- 387.280
- 387.278
- 387.088
- The distance between two villages on a map is 12cm. If the actual distance between the two villages is 18km, what is the scale on the map in the ratio form?
- 1:1500000
- 1:1500
- 1:15000
- 1:150,000
- The length of a rectangular plot is represented by the expression (3x+5) and its breadth by (x-3)cm. If the perimeter of a rectangular plot is 68m, what is the actual length of the rectangle?
- 120m
- 5m
- 29m
- 34m
- The table below shows distances between four towns in kilometres.
What is the distance from N to K via L?- 115 km
- 220 km
- 160 km
- 140 km
- Joy, a salesgirl is paid a basic salary of sh. 3200 plus commission on sales above sh. 10,000. In a certain month she earned a total sh. 7200 after selling goods worth sh 50,000. What was the percentage commission given?
- 11%
- 18%
- 10%
- .8%
- What is the value of x in3/5 x+1=5?
2- 8
- 5
- 124/15
- 9
- A number m is multiplied by 6 and then 10 is added to the result. The answer is 40. Which of the following equations is correct?
- m+16=40
- 6m=50
- 16m=40
- 6m+10=40
- Abraham paid sh. 42500 for a television set after the price of the television was reduced by sh. 7500. Calculate the percentage discount he was allowed?
- 115%
- 25%
- 15%
- 20%
- A rectangular farm measuring 300m by 240m was fenced all round leaving a 4m space for a gate. How many poles were used if the intervals were 4 metres apart?
- 270
- 271
- 269
- 1080
- Draw a triangle ABC in which AB=6cm, BC=7.5cm and angle ABC=85°. Draw a circle to touch its vertices. What is the radius of the circle?
- 2cm
- 4.6cm
- 9.2cm
- 0.4cm
- What is the value of 7.2 x 0.102 ?
0.36- 2.04
- 204
- 0.24
- 0.024
- Find the square root of 156%
- 156
- 12/2
- 111/2
- 623/4
- After an increase of 15kg the mass of a bag of maize became 90kg. What was the percentage increase?
- 10%
- 831/3%
- 16%%
- 20%
- The pie chart below shows the number of fruits in a basket
If there were 12 pineapples in the basket, how many more oranges than mangoes were there?- 16
- 52
- 36
- 144
- The marked price of a pair of shoes is sh. 1500. Hellen was given a 15% discount when she bought it on cash. How much should she sell it to make a 20% profit?
- sh. 225
- sh. 1275
- sh. 1530
- sh. 1500
- Which one of the following will not form a right angled triangle?
- 25cm, 15cm, 20cm
- 5cm, 12cm, 13cm
- 9cm, 16cm, 125cm
- 11cm, 60cm, 61cm
- What is the value of 4.3 +2.3 correct to 2 decimal places?
- 1.870
- 1.87
- 1.86
- 1.869
- The bar graph below shows the number of kilogrames of fat sold in a shop in five days.
In which pair of consecutive days was the total sales the highest?- Wednesday and Thursday
- Thursday and Friday
- Friday and Monday
- Tuesday and Wednesday
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