Mathematics Questions and Answers - Grade 6 End Term 3 Exams 2023 Set 1

1. In Kisumu county, seven hundred and ninety -six thousand, six hundred and ninety-six shillings, was donated to shiner's youth group. for empowerment by the cabinet secretary of sports. What was the total amount donated in symbols?
   1. 769696
   2. 766669
   3. 7966696
   4. 796696
2. A vendor sold 61799 newspapers in the month of June. How many newspapers were sold to the nearest hundreds?
   1. 62000
   2. 61700
   3. 61790
   4. 61800
3. Work out: 5748 x 26
   1. 149448
   2. 1494480
   3. 5774
   4. 149484.
4. A farmer harvested 103 bags of groundnuts. He sold all the bags at sh 1436568 to a supermarket. What is the total value of the amount represented by digit ↳ in the figure in shillings?
   1. 40000
   2. 400000
   3. Thousands
   4. Tens of thousands.
5. Grade six learners were asked to write the smallest factor of 144. What did they write as the correct answer?
   1. 144
   2. 1
   3. 2
   4. 12
6. Joy, a grade six learner, made number cards and arranged them as shown below.
   
   What did Joy write on the fifth card?
   1. 48
   2. 62
   3. 72
   4. 70.
7. A carpenter has two pieces of timber measuring 224cm and 280 cm respectively. He cut the two into smaller pieces of equal length. What was the length of the longest common pieces cut from the timber?
   1. 8
   2. 4
   3. 18
   4. 20
8. Solve the value of x:
   6x + 10 = 58
   1. 8⁴/₈
   2. 48
   3. 8
   4. 9⁴/₈
9. During a county music festival 10000 participants presented their items. The number of participants who took position one were only 52. Express the fraction of those who took position one. as a decimal.
   1. 0.52
   2. 0.0052
   3. 0.052
   4. 5.2.
10. The circle below shows how a farmer divided his land.
    
    The shaded part shows the used land. What is the equivalent fraction to the land that is unused?
    1. ²/₅
    2. ⁶/₁₀  
    3. ⁴/₁₀
    4. ⁸/₁₆
11. Work out 49cm 6mm ÷ 8
    1. 6cm 2mm
    2. 5cm 12mm
    3. 6cm 4mm
    4. 5cm 2 mm.
12. John, a mathematics teacher, displayed a card below during a mathematics lesson.
    
    What is the reciprocal of the fraction in the card?
    1. ⁴²/₇ 
    2. ⁴⁶/₆ 
    3. ⁷/₄₆ 
    4. ⁴⁶/₇
13. During an assessment, the analogue clock face in the room showed the following time.
    
    Which type of angle was formed by the minute. hand and hour hand at 9.00?
    1. Right angle
    2. Obtuse angle
    3. Acute angle,
    4. Reflex angle
14. Ondiek cut a ⁷/₈ piece of sugarcane from the farm. He shared ¹/₄ of the piece of sugarcane with his friend Rehema. What fraction of the piece of sugarcane remained?
    1. ²¹/32
    2. ⁵/₈
    3. ¹/₂
    4. ¹/₈ 
15. Serah had 7³/₅ kg of flour. She used 5²/₅ of the flour. How much flour remained?
    1. 13¹/₅ 
    2.  13
    3. 2⁵/₁₀
    4. 2¹/₅ 
16. A patient's mass was 59.3972 kg. The doctor rounded off the figure to 2 decimal places and noted it down.
    What did the doctor write?
    1. 59.40
    2. 59.39
    3. 58.40
    4. 59.00
17. What is 27.4934 + 132.26?
    1. 40.7194
    2. 28.816
    3. 159.7534
    4. 159.7435
18. A learner was given a plain paper which she painted as shown below.
    
    What is the area of the part that was shaded if the figure had a base of 13cm and a height of 8cm?
    1. 52cm²
    2. 104cm²
    3. 21 cm²
    4. 52cm
19. What is 9% as a decimal?
    1. 9.00
    2. 0.09
    3. 0.90
    4. 0.009.
20. Find the next two numbers in the pattern below.
    4,16, 36, 64,_________  _________
    1. 64,81
    2. 81,100
    3. 100, 144
    4. 9,10.
21. Anita is a mathematics leader in Grade 6. Shetold her classmates to work out the following
    (³/₈)²
    What was the correct answer?
    1. ⁶/₁₆
    2. ⁶⁴/₉
    3. ⁹/₆₄ 
    4. ³/₈  
22. Arrange ¹/₇, ²/₃, ⁴/₂₁, ⁵/₆ from the largest to the smallest?
    1. ¹/_7, ²/_3, ⁴/_21, ⁵/₆ 
    2. ¹/_7, ⁴/_21, ²/_3, ⁵/₆
    3.  ⁵/_6, ²/_3, ⁴/_21, ¹/_7, 
    4. ⁵/_6, ²/_3, ¹/_7, ⁴/₂₁
23. Add 25kg 67 lg to 9 kg 300g.
    1. 16kg 371g
    2. 34kg 790g
    3. 34kg 97 lg
    4. 43kg 791g
24. A farmer had t ducks, w turkeys and y pigeons. How many birds did he have altogether?
    1. t + w
    2. t+w+y
    3. w-t+y
    4. w + y.
25. A square piece of land measures 29km 450m. Wamaidha drove round the land 5 times. What distance did he cover?
    1. 142km 2250m
    2. 147km 2250m
    3. 147km 250 m
    4. 142km 250 m.
26. What is 49 ÷ 7 x 150 − 735
    1. 3150
    2. 31500
    3. 3510
    4. 315.
27. A lesson started at 12.30 pm and ended at 2.05 pm.How long did the lesson take?
    1. 10 hr 35 mins
    2. 1hr 25mins
    3. 1 hr 35mins
    4. 10 hrs 25 mins
28. Musa was going to school. Before he could reach the school gate, he realized that he had left his scarecrow at home. He turned back to go and pick it. Which turn was made by Musa?
    1. ½ turn
    2. ¼ turn
    3. Full turn
    4. ³/₄ turn
29. Which quadrilateral has the following properties?
    
    1. All sides are equal.
    2. Interior angles are equal.
    3. Diagonals are equal.
    4. Diagonals meet at at right angle.
       1. Rectangle
       2. Parallelogram
       3. Rhombus
       4. Square
30. The types of vehicles that were packed in an area were recoded in a graph as shown
    .
    Which type of vehicle was the least parked in the area?
    1. Lorries
    2. Matatus
    3. Buses
    4. Cars

MARKING SCHEME

1. D
2. D
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. C
7. A
8. C
9. B
10. A
11. A
12. C
13. B
14. B
15. D
16. A
17. C
18. A
19. B
20. C
21. C
22. C
23. C
24. B
25. C
26. D
27. C
28. A
29. D
30. B